Stephanie Cooke

  • In this picture taken on January 31, 2018 employees of Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) stand in front of the company&#8217;s reactor number 3 at Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in Okuma, Fukushima prefecture.<br /> The Fukushima nuclear power operator is hoping to use the 2020 Tokyo Olympics as a springboard to double the number of visitors to its Tsunami-ravaged plant, as it seeks to clean up the region&#8217;s image. A massive undersea earthquake on March 11, 2011 sent a tsunami barrelling into Japan&#8217;s northeast coast, leaving more than 18,000 people dead or missing and sparking the Fukushima crisis, the worst such accident since Chernobyl in 1986.<br /> / AFP PHOTO / Behrouz MEHRI / TO GO WITH AFP STORY &#8220;JAPAN-NUCLEAR-FUKUSHIMA-DISASTER&#8221; BY SHINGO ITO (Photo credit should read BEHROUZ MEHRI/AFP via Getty Images)Commentary

    There’s no such thing as a new nuclear golden age–just old industry hands trying to make a buck

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