The 1986 meltdown at the chernobyl power complex in the ukraine recently dramatized in the hbo series chernobyl was followed 25 years later by the 2011 disaster at fukushima daiichi nuclear. In this spring i visited and stayed at fukushima for several days to find out what fukushima is really like by seeing the area firsthand and hearing what the local people are actually saying. The disaster caused catastrophic damage especially to the east side of fukushima with the mega tsunami and the fukushima nuclear power plant explosion.
Komori current status and the future of fukushima daiichi np station world nuclear association 2015 symposium presentation. Unscear webpage on the fukushima daiichi nuclear power plant accident iaea report by the director general on the fukushima daiichi accident sti pub 1710 isbn 978 92 0 107015 9 september 2015 a. At the time of the disaster various contamination hazards in the form of radioactive isotopes were released from the fukushima daiichi nuclear power station.
20km evacuation zone surrounding the fukushima daiichi nuclear power station shown in figure 1 has become a no man s land a barricaded desolate space largely left rch 11. After more than eight years japan is still struggling with aftermath of the 2011 fukushima nuclear disaster the japanese government and nuclear industry have not solved the many technical economic and socio political challenges brought on by the accident. A map of the region around the fukushima daiichi and daini nuclear power plants including some important distances.
The japanese nuclear safety commission had ordered tepco to come up with a plan on how to fix all outstanding issues until june 2 2011 three months after the disaster. However the physical chemical and isotopic form of the released pu has remained unknown. Small amounts of plutonium pu were released from the damaged fukushima daiichi nuclear power plant fdnpp reactors into the environment during the site s 2011 nuclear disaster.
The release of radioactive isotopes from reactor containment vessels. The radiation effects from the fukushima daiichi nuclear disaster are the observed and predicted effects as a result of the release of radioactive isotopes from the fukushima daiichii nuclear power plant following the 2011 tōhoku 9 0 magnitude earthquake and tsunami great east japan earthquake and the resultant tsunami. 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. 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.
