TY - CHAP AU - Hajime Iwata AU - Hiroyuki Shiotsu AU - Makoto Kaneko AU - Satoshi Utsunomiya ED - Shripad T. Revankar Y1 - 2012-02-22 PY - 2012 T1 - Nuclear Accidents in Fukushima, Japan, and Exploration of Effective Decontaminant for the 137Cs-Contaminated Soils N2 - Worldwide there are more than 430 nuclear power plants operating and more plants are being constructed or planned for construction. For nuclear power to be sustainable the nuclear fuel must be sustainable and there should be adequate nuclear fuel waste management program. Continuous technological advances will lead towards sustainable nuclear fuel through closed fuel cycles and advance fuel development. This focuses on challenges and issues that need to be addressed for better performance and safety of nuclear fuel in nuclear plants. These focused areas are on development of high conductivity new fuels, radiation induced corrosion, fuel behavior during abnormal events in reactor, and decontamination of radioactive material. BT - Advances in Nuclear Fuel SP - Ch. 6 UR - https://doi.org/10.5772/33540 DO - 10.5772/33540 SN - PB - IntechOpen CY - Rijeka Y2 - 2024-04-16 ER -