Fukushima Daiichi Tsunami 2011
On march 11 2011 a magnitude 9 earthquake shook northeastern japan unleashing a savage tsunami. The fukushima daiichi plant as the tsunami approached.
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Fukushima daiichi tsunami 2011. Its been seven years since a magnitude 89 earthquake in northeastern japan triggered a massive tsunami that led to a meltdown at the fukushima daiichi nuclear power plant. Seawater flooded power lines causing a meltdown in three of the six reactors. The plant suffered major damage from the magnitude 90 earthquake and tsunami that hit japan on march 11 2011.
The chain of events caused radiation leaks and permanently damaged several reactors making them impossible to restart. The fukushima daiichi nuclear disaster was a nuclear accident at the fukushima daiichi nuclear power plant in ōkuma fukushima prefecture. At the time of the earthquake japan had 54 nuclear reactors with two under construction and 17 power plants that produced about 30 of japans electricity iaea 2011.
All three cores largely melted in the first three days. Three fukushima daiichi reactors in japan released radiation into the environment on march 11 2011 following an earthquake and tsunami. The accident was started by the tōhoku earthquake and tsunami on friday 11 march 2011.
By political decision the remaining reactors were not restarted. Material damage from the. On detecting the earthquake the active reactors.
The effects of the great earthquake were felt around the world from norways fjords to. Japans fukushima region transformed from rural haven to ravaged wasteland when the earthquake and tsunami struck in march 2011. The fukushima daiichi nuclear power plant is a disabled nuclear power plant located on a 35 square kilometre site in the towns of ōkuma and futaba in fukushima prefecture japan.
Fukushima accident disaster that occurred in 2011 at the fukushima daiichi number one nuclear power plant on the pacific coast of northern japan which was caused by a severe earthquake and powerful series of tsunami waves and was the second worst nuclear power accident in history. The disaster was the most severe nuclear accident since the 26 april 1986 chernobyl disaster and the only other disaster to be given the level 7 event classification of the international nuclear event scale. Following a major earthquake a 15 metre tsunami disabled the power supply and cooling of three fukushima daiichi reactors causing a nuclear accident on 11 march 2011.
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