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Apr 25, 2023 · The Fukushima accident also motivated other countries, including the U.S., to practice for out-of-the-box scenarios (“Even if they’re farfetched,” Howitt said), and crises like famine, drought, pandemics, and superstorms, such as Hurricane Sandy. A lot of people had believed this kind of disaster couldn’t happen in Japan, Fackler said.
Mar 11, 2024 · Japan on Monday, March 11, 2024, marked 13 years since a massive earthquake and tsunami hit the country’s northern coasts. (Kyodo News via AP, File) FILE - The damaged Unit 1, left, and Unit 2, right, of the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant are seen in Okumamachi, Fukushima Prefecture, on March 13, 2011. Japan on Monday, March 11, 2024 ...
Mar 9, 2012 · Radioactive fallout has tainted hundreds of square miles north of Tokyo since March 11, 2011, when a magnitude 9.0 earthquake triggered a tsunami that caused three reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant to melt down. The scientists following transects across mountainsides and through valleys are conducting the first investigation ...
Aug 23, 2023 · The Fukushima Disaster is classified as a level seven event by the International Atomic Energy Agency, the highest such event and only the second event to meet this classification after the 1986 ...
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Mar 19, 2021 · On 11 March 2011, an earthquake cut power to the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, and a tsunami wiped out emergency generators. Three reactor cores exploded, releasing the highest amount of radioactivity in the environment since the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. Although cleanup in Fukushima has been in progress for 10 years, many years ...
Radiation effects from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. The 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, the worst nuclear incident in 25 years, displaced 50,000 households after radioactive material leaked into the air, soil and sea. [1] Radiation checks led to bans on some shipments of vegetables and fish.
Mar 11, 2011 · Since the disaster, Fukushima's workers have been shunned and some are experiencing severe mental trauma. Watch what happened to them that day. March 19, 2013.
