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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 ...
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 ...
As of 2013, the Fukushima site remains highly radioactive, with some 160,000 evacuees still living in temporary housing, and some land will be unfarmable for centuries. The difficult cleanup job will take 40 or more years, and cost many tens of billions of dollars, with total economic costs estimated at $250–$500 billion. [1] [2] [3]
The magnitude 7.6 quake on New Year's Day and dozens of strong aftershocks in Japan's north-central region have left 222 people dead and 22 unacco. The operator of the wrecked Fukushima Daiichi ...
The Fukushima 50 were drawn from Toshiba, Hitachi, Kajima, firefighters from Tokyo, Osaka, [7] Yokohama, [8] Kawasaki, Nagoya and Kyoto, TEPCO and its subsidiaries such as Kandenko, [9] TEP Industry and TEP Environmental Engineering, and many small-to-mid-size companies that have contracts with these big companies.
After September the city of Fukushima collected the 36,478 "glass badges" of dosimeters from all its citizens for analysis. It turned out that 99 percent had not been exposed to more than 0.3 millisieverts in September 2011, except four young children from one family: a girl, in third year elementary school, had received 1.7 millisieverts, and ...
The commissioner of the New York Police Department said there are "no specific credible threats" to the New Year's Eve celebration in Times Square. More than 1 million will pack Times Square in ...
By March 2023, he was living in the New York City shelter system. Sebastian Zapeta-Calil is charged with first-degree murder in the sick Brooklyn subway arson attack on Dec. 22. Gregory P. Mango