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Images taken by miniature drones from deep inside a badly damaged reactor at the Fukushima nuclear plant show displaced control equipment and misshapen materials but leave many questions ...
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 ...
Japan on Monday marked 13 years since a massive earthquake and tsunami hit the country’s northern coasts. Nearly 20,000 people died, whole towns were wiped out and the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear ...
The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident (福島第一原子力発電所事故, Fukushima Dai-ichi (pronunciation ⓘ) genshiryoku hatsudensho jiko) was a series of ...
A panel of safety experts on Tuesday urged the operator of the tsunami-wrecked Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan to communicate more quickly with the public over incidents such as ...
Despite the incorrect figure of workers, the Fukushima 50 has remained the pseudonym used by media to refer to the group of workers at Fukushima reflecting the solitary nature of the role. [ 5 ] The number of the workers involved rose to 580 on the morning of 18 March [ 1 ] as staff from the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant and workers ...
Units 1 through 4 at the plant. At the time of the earthquake, Unit 4 had been shut down for shroud replacement and refueling since 29 November 2010. [1] [2] All 548 fuel assemblies had been transferred in December 2010 from the reactor to the spent fuel pool on an upper floor of the reactor building [3] where they were held in racks containing boron to damp down any nuclear reaction. [4]
The 9.0 magnitude quake and tsunami that ravaged parts of Japan’s northeastern coast on March 11, 2011 killed about 20,000 people and drove thousands from their homes in the prefectures of ...