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A Eurocopter AS355 helicopter crashed and killed the pilot, reporter and cameraman whilst on location. [7] [8] 3 0 "... the pilot probably became spatially disoriented." [8] 2010-11-12 Pacoima, California, United States KCBS-TV/KCAL-TV: An AS350-B2 experienced an engine failure when taking off to cover a news story. The tail came off after an ...
On 23 March, black smoke billowed from Unit 3, prompting another evacuation of workers from the plant, though Tokyo Electric Power Co. officials said there had been no corresponding spike in radiation at the plant. "We don't know the reason for the smoke", Hidehiko Nishiyama of the Nuclear Safety Agency said. [41]
Several of the plant's workers were severely injured or killed by the disaster conditions resulting from the earthquake. There were no immediate deaths due to direct radiation exposures, but at least six workers have exceeded lifetime legal limits for radiation and more than 300 have received significant radiation doses.
In Futaba, the hardest-hit town and a co-host of the Fukushima Daiichi plant, a small area was opened in 2022. About 100 people, or 1.5% percent of the pre-disaster population, have returned to live.
The operator of the wrecked Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan said Tuesday it has no new safety worries and envisions no changes to the plant’s decommissioning plans even after a ...
Two workers at the tsunami-wrecked Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant were hospitalized after accidentally getting sprayed with liquid laced with radioactive materials, officials said Thursday.
Disaster-related deaths" are deaths attributed to disasters and are not caused by direct physical trauma, but do not distinguish between people displaced by the nuclear disaster compared to the earthquake/tsunami. As of the year 2016, among those deaths, 1,368 have been listed as "related to the nuclear power plant" according to media analysis ...
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 ...