It was the largest civilian nuclear accident since the chernobyl accident in 1986. On 11 march 2011 the fukushima daiichi nuclear power plant suffered major damage from the failure of equipment after the magnitude 9 0 great east japan earthquake and subsequent tsunami. 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.
The fukushima daiichi nuclear power plant 福島第一原子力発電所 fukushima daiichi genshiryoku hatsudensho is a disabled nuclear power plant located on a 3 5 square kilometre 860 acre site in the towns of ōkuma and futaba in fukushima prefecture japan the plant suffered major damage from the magnitude 9 0 earthquake and tsunami that hit japan on march 11 2011. 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.
