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Tsunami Fukushima Daiichi

After an earthquake and tsunami rocked japan in 2011 the fukushima daiichi nuclear plant quickly became a disaster of its own. 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.

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Tsunami fukushima daiichi. There are six reactors at tokyo electric power companys fukushima daiichi plant located about. Understanding the accident of fukushima daiichi. The accident was started by the tōhoku earthquake and tsunami on friday 11 march 2011.

On march 11 2011 japan was hit by an undersea 91 magnitude earthquake that shook the coast of tōhoku region triggering a tsunami wreaking havoc in cities such as kesennuma ishinomaki and. The tsunami caused a cooling system failure at the fukushima daiichi nuclear power plant which resulted in a level 7 nuclear meltdown and release of radioactive materials. At the fukushima daiichi number one plant in northeastern honshu japan a loss of main and backup power after an earthquake and tsunami led to a partial meltdown of fuel rods in three reactors.

On detecting the earthquake the active reactors. The plant suffered major damage from the magnitude 90 earthquake and tsunami that hit japan on march 11 2011. 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.

The fukushima daiichi nuclear disaster occurred after a 90 magnitude tōhoku earthquake and subsequent tsunami on 11 march 2011 only 14 days before the reactor was to be shut down. The other three at fukushima daiichi lost power at 342 pm almost an hour after the quake when the entire site was flooded by the 15 metre tsunami. Fukushima dai ichi dai ichi means 1 is a multi reactor nuclear power site in the fukushima prefecture of japan.

The fukushima daiichi nuclear disaster was a nuclear accident at the fukushima daiichi nuclear power plant in ōkuma fukushima prefecture. New footage has been released of the moment japans tsunami hit the fukushima nuclear power plant. This disabled 12 of 13 back up generators on site and also the heat exchangers for dumping reactor waste heat and decay heat to the sea.

The chain of events caused radiation leaks and permanently damaged several reactors making them impossible to restart. Material damage from the earthquake and tsunami is estimated at about 25 trillion yen 300 billion. After an earthquake and tsunami rocked japan in 2011 the fukushima.

By political decision the remaining reactors were not restarted.

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