Japan s first ever nuclear emergency was declared and 140 000 residents within 20 km 12 mi of the plant were evacuated. Though all of japan s nuclear reactors successfully withstood shaking from the tohoku earthquake flooding from the ensuing tsunami caused the failure of cooling systems at the fukushima i nuclear power plant on 11 march 2011. It appears that no serious damage was done to the reactors by the earthquake and the operating units 1 3 were automatically shut down in response to it as designed.
See also background on earthquakes and seismic protection for nuclear power plants in japan events at fukushima daiichi 1 3 4. 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.
The operator of the ruined fukushima daiichi nuclear power plant will have to dump huge quantities of contaminated water from the site directly into the pacific ocean japan s environment. When it comes to nuclear plants based on the same bwr system as fukushima daiichi reactors 6 and 7 of kashiwazaki kariwa tepco tōkai daini japan atomic power company and onagawa tōhoku. The fukushima daini nuclear power plant 福島第二原子力発電所 fukushima daini pronunciation genshiryoku hatsudensho fukushima ii npp 2f is a nuclear power plant located on a 150 ha 370 acre site in the town of naraha and tomioka in the futaba district of fukushima prefecture japan the tokyo electric power company tepco runs the plant.
The disaster at the fukushima daiichi power plant following the devastating tsunami in japan on the 11 th of march in 2011 has proven costly in many ways politically economically and. 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.
