Japan s tohoku electric power said on wednesday it has won initial regulatory approval to restart a reactor at its onagawa power plant more than 8 years after it was damaged in the earthquake and. Nuclear disaster feared in japan after power plant explosion. Before and after the japan tsunami.
Fukushima nuclear plant opened to journalists. Nuclear engineering international reported that all four units were successfully automatically shut down but emergency diesel generators at the site were out of order. After the 2011 tōhoku earthquake and tsunami of 11 march the cooling systems for three reactors numbers 1 2 and 4 of the fukushima ii fukushima dai ni nuclear power plant were compromised due to damage from the 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.
