Mistakes do occur and the designers of reactors at fukushima in japan did not anticipate that a tsunami generated by a such unexpected large earthquake. The nuclear power industry has improved the safety and performance of reactors and has proposed new safer but generally untested reactor designs but there is no guarantee that the reactors will be designed built and operated correctly. The fukushima nuclear facility was a nuclear power plant to convert nuclear energy into electrical energy.
The fukushima dai ichi nuclear accident is a series of incidents including four separate explosions that took place at the naraha nuclear power plant in fukushima prefecture japan following the tōhoku earthquake and tsunami on march 11. 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.
Tateiwa jan 2014 decommissioning fukushima daiichi nps. Government s decision on addressing the contaminated water issue at tepco s fukushima daiichi nps 3 sept 2013 on ministry of foreign affairs website k. Inpo 11 005 addendum aug 2012 lessons learned from the nuclear accident at fukushima daiichi nuclear power station.
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 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. 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. 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. 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.
It was the first ge designed nuclear plant to be constructed and run entirely by the tokyo electric power company tepco.
Japan nuclear power station disaster. The fukushima daiichi nuclear power plant consisted of six ge light water boiling water reactors bwrs with a combined power of 4 7 gigawatts making it one of the world s 25 largest nuclear power stations.
The fukushima daiichi nuclear power plant consisted of six ge light water boiling water reactors bwrs with a combined power of 4 7 gigawatts making it one of the world s 25 largest nuclear power stations.
