Five years after a tsunami shut down the fukushima nuclear reactor in japan these haunting images show how the towns surrounding the 12 mile exclusion zone have been frozen in time. Even though nuclear reactions have stopped there s still an awful lot of heat and subsequently radioactive. In modern nuclear reactors control rods can be placed in between regular fuel rods to stop nuclear reactions in the event of an emergency that process was accomplished successfully in the japanese fukushima daiichi nuclear reactors but the problems occurring there come from a catch.
Tokyo electric power co tepco the operator of destroyed fukushima nuclear power plant late friday published fresh images from inside a damaged reactor the afp news agency reported. The fukushima daiichi nuclear plant was hit by a huge tsunami triggered back in 2011 leading to the worst nuclear disaster since the one in chernobyl in 1986. These pictures show how nature has reclaimed.
A 12 5 mile exclusion zone was created in the aftermath of the meltdown. The fukushima disaster was one of the world s worst nuclear plant accidents. The site is on japan s pacific coast in northeastern fukushima prefecture about 100 km 60 miles south of sendai.
Fukushima accident also called fukushima nuclear accident or fukushima daiichi nuclear accident accident in 2011 at the fukushima daiichi number one plant in northern japan the second worst nuclear accident in the history of nuclear power generation. Besides sustaining considerable damage from the earthquake and the tsunami which devastated the coastal area the town was evacuated en masse on the morning of march 12 as it is located well within the 20 kilometer exclusion radius around the damaged fukushima daiichi. Tomioka was severely affected by the fukushima daiichi nuclear disaster.
The country was hit by a devastating earthquake and tsunami which caused a dangerous radiation leak at the nuclear. In 2011 japan was rocked by a nuclear disaster as its fukushima daiichi plant. It also disrupted the nuclear reactors at fukushima daiichi power plant which caused radioactive leaks.
Remembering japan s tsunami and fukushima nuclear disaster. All three cores largely melted in the first three days. Following a major earthquake a 15 metre tsunami disabled the power supply and cooling of three fukushima daiichi reactors causing a nuclear accident on march 11 2011.
The fukushima daiichi nuclear disaster was a nuclear accident at the fukushima daiichi nuclear power plant in ōkuma fukushima prefecture.
Fukushima daiichi nuclear disaster images. The fukushima daiichi nuclear power plant comprised six separate boiling water reactors originally designed by general electric ge and maintained by the tokyo electric power company tepco. At the time of the tōhoku earthquake on 11 march 2011 reactors 4 5 and 6 were shut down in preparation for re fueling. However their spent fuel pools still required cooling.
However their spent fuel pools still required cooling. At the time of the tōhoku earthquake on 11 march 2011 reactors 4 5 and 6 were shut down in preparation for re fueling. The fukushima daiichi nuclear power plant comprised six separate boiling water reactors originally designed by general electric ge and maintained by the tokyo electric power company tepco.
