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The Fukushima nuclear disaster is a series of ongoing equipment failures, reactor meltdowns, and releases of radioactive materials at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, following the Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami on March 11, 2011. [1] [2] The plant has six separate Nuclear reactors maintained by the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO ...
Nuclear reactor accidents continued into the 1960s with a small test reactor exploding at the Stationary Low-Power Reactor Number One in Idaho Falls in January 1961 resulting in three deaths which were the first fatalities in the history of U.S. nuclear reactor operations. [6] There was also a partial meltdown at the Enrico Fermi Nuclear ...
Coating of previously molten material on bypass region interior surfaces. Upper grid damaged top plate. Corium, also called fuel-containing material ( FCM) or lava-like fuel-containing material ( LFCM ), is a material that is created in a nuclear reactor core during a nuclear meltdown accident.
Investigations into the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Disaster (or Accident) [4] began on 11 March 2011 when a series of equipment failures, core melt and down, and releases of radioactive materials occurred at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station from the 2011 off the Pacific coast of Tohoku Earthquake and tsunami on the same day. [5] [6]
The Japanese reaction occurred after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, following the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami. A nuclear emergency was declared by the government of Japan on 11 March. Later Prime Minister Naoto Kan issued instructions that people within a 20 km (12 mi) zone around the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant must leave ...
During the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant has become the center of an ongoing nuclear safety crisis, described by Ukraine as an act of nuclear terrorism by Russia [1] and vice versa [citation needed] . The plant, which is the largest of its kind in Europe, has seen destruction of its infrastructure via ...
Many people have seen the event as a turning point for the nuclear power industry in the United States. The Three Mile Island power station is near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. The accident resulted in a partial core meltdown in Unit 2 of the nuclear power plant. Unit 2's pressurized water reactor was of 900 MWe capacity.
