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Mar 5, 2021 · The 2011 disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant was the worst nuclear event since the meltdown at Chernobyl in the former Soviet Union 25 years prior. It started with an earthquake ...
Mar 10, 2021 · Over 18,500 people died in the tsunamis, but the death count from the nuclear accident is still disputed. Two TEPCO employees died from “disaster conditions,” suffering external injuries.
Mar 23, 2011 · Summary of the Fukushima Daiichi Disaster. The earthquake on March 11, 2011, off the east coast of Honshu, Japan’s largest island, reportedly caused an automatic shutdown of 11 of Japan’s 55 operating nuclear power plants.5 Most of the shutdowns proceeded without incident. However, the plants closest to the epicenter, Fukushima and Onagawa ...
Aug 23, 2023 · The Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant is in the town of Okuma, in Fukushima Prefecture. It sits on the country's east coast, about 220km (137 miles) north-east of the capital Tokyo.
21.9 The fukushima daiichi accident. On March 11, 2011, a multiunit accident occurred at the Fukushima Daiichi plant on the northeastern Japanese coastline. At 2:46 p.m., a large magnitude 9.0 earthquake struck 180 km off the eastern coast, resulting in an automatic shutdown of units 1, 2, and 3, which were operating at the time.
Aug 23, 2023 · At the Fukushima nuclear power plant, the gigantic wave surged over coastal defences and flooded the reactors, sparking a major disaster. Authorities set up an exclusion zone which grew larger and ...
Mar 16, 2011 · They visited the Tokyo Electric Power Company's Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Station and other locations relevant to the accident and nuclear safety in general. The Mission, organized by the International Atomic Energy Agency, comprises nearly 20 international and IAEA experts from a dozen countries, and undertook fact-finding activities from 24 May to 2 June 2011.
