Twenty five years later another nuclear catastrophe would unfold in japan after the magnitude 9 0 tohoku earthquake and subsequent tsunami triggered a disastrous system failure at fukushima. 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. These were in two stages and are described in the japan nuclear power paper.
The government ordered nuclear risk and safety reassessments so called stress tests based on those in the eu for all japan s nuclear reactors except fukushima s before they restart following any shutdown including for routine checks. 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.
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. 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.
The disaster caused catastrophic damage especially to the east side of fukushima with the mega tsunami and the fukushima nuclear power plant explosion. Fukushima has been one of the most famous names of the place in japan against the residents will since the the great east japan earthquake occurred on the 11th match 2011. Tokyo japan at the end of a decade in which northeastern japan was devastated by a tsunami that triggered a nuclear disaster at fukushima atomic energy looks unlikely to make a comeback.
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.
