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The nuclear accident left cars abandoned as is only to be reclaimed by Mother Nature, and the sight is undoubtedly sad. Photos: The Abandoned Cars Of Fukushima Skip to main content
Although there was no change in the afternoon, TEPCO said that radiation levels did not change, and the reactor was still cooled. [61] According to TEPCO rain could have found its way to the primary containment of the reactor, and because this vessel was still hot, it could cause the steam. [62] The next day at 7:55 a.m. the steam was gone.
Fukushima fishing returned to normal operations in 2021, and the local catch is now about one-fifth of its pre-disaster level because of a decline in the fishing population and smaller catch sizes. The government has earmarked 10 billion yen ($680 million) to support Fukushima fisheries.
As of August 2011, the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant is still leaking low levels of radioactive material and areas surrounding it could remain uninhabitable for decades due to high radiation. It could take "more than 20 years before residents could safely return to areas with current radiation readings of 200 millisieverts per year, and a ...
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 total amount of radioactive material still stored at Fukushima is about 8 times that stored at Chernobyl, and leakage at Fukushima continues. After cooling efforts at spent-fuel pool 4 were halted, due to an erroneous warning about the pool filling up, [ 176 ] the temperature of the pool rises to 90 °C and the dose rate 6 meters above the ...
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 ...