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. Japan nuclear fuel ltd which owns a used nuclear fuel reprocessing plant in aomori. And jpy 622 million by chubu electric power co.
Provided jpy 1229 million followed by jpy 660 million by kyushu electric power co. The percentage of utility contributions was fixed in proportion to the power output of their plants so kansai electric power co. In the government fifth energy basic plan the aim is for nuclear energy to account for 20.
Since the 2011 disaster japan s power companies have decided to decommission a total of 21 reactors. By now more japanese have died from the closing of japan s nuclear power plants following the 2011 tohoku quake than from the tsunami and the earthquake combined which was about 20 000 people. As of february 2019 of the 54 nuclear reactors in japan there were 42 operable reactors but only 9 reactors in 5 power plants were actually operating.
Nuclear power energy was a national strategic priority in japan. Prior to the 2011 tōhoku earthquake and tsunami japan had generated 30 of its electrical power from nuclear reactors and planned to increase that share to 40. 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.
