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The Fukushima nuclear accident was a major nuclear accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Ōkuma, Fukushima, Japan, which began on 11 March 2011. The proximate cause of the accident was the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami , which resulted in electrical grid failure and damaged nearly all of the power plant's backup energy ...
Japanese newspapers commented the first useful analysis of the accident was not given by the government or TEPCO, but by Masashi Gotō, a retired (1989-2009 [14]) Toshiba nuclear engineer whose predecessor designed the containment buildings of Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactor in the 1960s, who had a series of press briefings at the Foreign ...
Japan Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency (NISA) reiterated concerns about a Unit 3 breach on 30 March. [54] NHK World reported the NISA's concerns as "air may be leaking", very probably through "weakened valves, pipes and openings under the reactors where the control rods are inserted", but that "there is no indication of large cracks or ...
IAEA Update on Japan Earthquake, International Atomic Energy Agency; Nature Journal – Specials: Japan earthquake and nuclear crisis; TerraFly Timeline Aerial Imagery of Fukushima Nuclear Reactor after 2011 Tsunami and Earthquake; Documentary photographs: residential damage within "No Go" Zone; In graphics: Fukushima nuclear alert, as provided ...
IAEA Update on Japan Earthquake, International Atomic Energy Agency; Nature Journal – Specials: Japan earthquake and nuclear crisis; TerraFly Timeline Aerial Imagery of Fukushima Nuclear Reactor after 2011 Tsunami and Earthquake; Documentary photographs: residential damage within "No Go" Zone; In graphics: Fukushima nuclear alert, as provided ...
By 21 March 2011, Toshiba had sent a 100-strong team to two Fukushima plants as part of a task-force of 700 Toshiba workers organized at Toshiba's Isogo Engineering Centre to defuse the nuclear crisis, and Hitachi had dispatched 120 to Fukushima I and formed a 1000-strong task force. [36] [37]
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Reports by the Manhattan Project in 1946 and the U.S. occupation–led Joint Commission for the Investigation of the Atomic Bomb in Japan in 1951 estimated 66,000 dead and 69,000 injured, and 64,500 dead and 72,000 injured, respectively, while Japanese-led reconsiderations of the death toll in the 1970s estimated 140,000 dead in Hiroshima by ...