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The tsunami causes a meltdown at the TEPCO Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant causing Prime Minister Naoto Kan to resign five months later on August 25, 2011. The meltdown also displaced around 100,000 people from their homes, jobs, and farms in the nearly 12.5 mile exclusion zone around the plant.
Seconds from Disaster is a US/UK-produced documentary television programme that investigates historically relevant man-made and natural disasters from the 20th and early 21st centuries. Each episode aims to explain a single incident by analyzing the causes and circumstances that ultimately affected the disaster.
The National Geographic documentary program Seconds From Disaster also examined the derailment. In addition to corroborating findings of the official accident report, the program revealed that the train had been delayed in New Orleans by repairs to an air conditioner unit and a toilet. This had put it a half-hour behind schedule.
The partial meltdown at the nuclear power plant at Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania in 1979 was a perfect coalescing of factors in two senses. First, a series of cascading mechanical and human ...
Seconds From Disaster Critical Situation (also known as Situation Critical in the UK) is an American documentary television series. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Produced in conjunction with the National Geographic Channel , the series examined various disasters or violent incidents.
Madison Beer had already handed her sophomore album to her label when she frantically called her producer, New Zealand-born producer Leroy Clampitt, to tell him that she wanted to turn the whole ...
TV documentaries were also made concerning the disaster, all distributed worldwide and focusing on either safety aspects or the circumstances that turned what should have been a serious, but controllable incident into a disaster. The first, Seconds from Disaster – Tunnel Inferno (aired 2004), was a reconstruction of the events leading up to ...
President Donald Trump campaigned on the promise of tariffs. He followed through on that pledge within days of re-taking office, making many Americans concerned about their already-strained ...