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In Rikuzentakata, about 100 people prayed atop a massive concrete seawall. And at a ceremony in Fukushima prefecture, where some 20,000 people still cannot return to their homes because 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 ...
The Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant (福島第一原子力発電所, Fukushima Daiichi Genshiryoku Hatsudensho, Fukushima number 1 nuclear power plant) is a disabled nuclear power plant located on a 350-hectare (860-acre) site [1] in the towns of Ōkuma and Futaba in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan.
It was this tsunami that has been determined to be solely responsible for precipitating the loss of cooling and ultimately the Fukushima disaster at Fukushima I which had a much shorter sea wall of 5.7 m (19 ft). [27] In response to the high tsunami, Onagawa power plant's seawall was later built up to a height of 17 m (56 ft). [28]
The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant will start releasing treated and diluted radioactive wastewater into the Pacific Ocean as early as Thursday — a controversial step that the government ...
The tsunami-damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant began its third release of treated and diluted radioactive wastewater into the sea Thursday after Japanese officials said the two earlier ...
Facility improvements after Fukushima I nuclear accidents [ edit ] On 21 April 2011, after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster , TEPCO announced a plan to build up the seawall to a height of 15 m (49.2 ft) above sea level and spanning more than 800 m (2,624 ft) in length for units 1–4, and more than 500 m (1,640 ft) for units 5–7 by June ...
Watch a view of Japan's Fukushima nuclear power plant on Friday, 25 August, as it begins to discharge treated radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean. A massive earthquake and tsunami caused ...