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As of 27 February 2017, the Fukushima prefecture government counted 2,129 "disaster-related deaths" in the prefecture. [21] [19] [22] [23] This value exceeds the number that have died in Fukushima prefecture directly from the earthquake and tsunami. [24] "Disaster-related deaths" are deaths attributed to disasters and are not caused by direct ...
Fukushima nuclear disaster: 2011 March In 2018, 1 cancer death of a man who worked at the plant at the time of the accident was attributed to radiation exposure by a Japanese government panel. [8] [9] It has been suggested that 2,202 died as a result of the stresses of evacuation. [10] The overall death count as a result of the accident is ...
The plant with seven units is the largest single nuclear power station in the world, which now again is shut down due to the Fukushima accident. [47] 0: 1 Dec 2009: Hamaoka, Japan: Leakage accident of radioactive water. 34 workers were exposed to radiation: 0: Mar 2011: Fukushima Dai-ichi, Japan: The world's second INES 7 accident.
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 ...
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 ...
Fishermen and residents of Fukushima and five other prefectures along Japan’s northeastern coast filed a lawsuit Friday demanding a halt to the ongoing release of treated radioactive wastewater ...
[150] [151] There have been five serious accidents (core damage) in the world since 1970 (one at Three Mile Island in 1979; one at Chernobyl in 1986; and three at Fukushima-Daiichi in 2011), corresponding to the beginning of the operation of generation II reactors. This leads to on average one serious accident happening every eight years worldwide.
A survey by the Iitate, Fukushima local government obtained responses from approximately 1,743 people who have evacuated from the village, which lies within the emergency evacuation zone around the crippled Fukushima Daiichi Plant. It shows that many residents are experiencing growing frustration and instability due to the nuclear crisis and an ...