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Sep 27, 2024 · A failure of the main power line and a loss of backup power were at the heart of the second worst nuclear accident in the history of nuclear power generation (after Chernobyl)—a partial meltdown in 2011 at the Fukushima Daiichi (“Number One”) plant in Japan.
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Fukushima, ken (prefecture), northeastern Honshu, Japan,...
- Fukushima
Oct 4, 2024 · On 11 March 2011 a major earthquake struck Japan. It was followed by a 15-metre tsunami which disabled the power supply and cooling of three reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant and all three cores largely melted in the first three days.
19 hours ago · Before Fukushima, Japan derived one-third of its electricity from nuclear power. Public attitudes toward nuclear energy hardened after the disaster, especially as investigations showed that ...
Oct 7, 2024 · Fukushima, ken (prefecture), northeastern Honshu, Japan, facing the Pacific Ocean. It is mostly mountainous, and settlement is concentrated in small interior basins and along the coast. Inawashiro Lake, 40 square miles (100 square km) in area, occupies the centre of the prefecture.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
1 day ago · Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings (Tepco) said Monday that it has completed the fifth round of discharges of tritium-containing treated water from its Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant into ...
Oct 7, 2024 · TOKYO (AP) — A team of scientists from the International Atomic Energy Agency arrived in Fukushima on Monday as part of an annual monitoring and sampling mission to ensure safety of the discharge of treated radioactive wastewater into the sea, officials said. Japan began discharging the wastewater from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power ...
Sep 17, 2024 · TOKYO – The operator of Japan’s stricken Fukushima nuclear plant said on Sept 17 that it has suspended an operation to remove a sample of highly radioactive material because of a new technical...
