37 workers were exposed to low doses of radiation. The tokaimura nuclear reprocessing plant fire and explosion. State run operator donen was found to have concealed videotape footage that showed extensive damage to the reactor.
The fast breeder monju nuclear power plant sodium leak. 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.
A powerful explosion hits a badly damaged japanese nuclear power plant as a huge relief operation continues after friday s devastating earthquake and tsunami. 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 1986 meltdown at the chernobyl power complex in the ukraine recently dramatized in the hbo series chernobyl was followed 25 years later by the 2011 disaster at fukushima daiichi nuclear.
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. 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. 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.
Fukushima accident disaster that occurred in 2011 at the fukushima daiichi number one nuclear power plant on the pacific coast of northern japan which was caused by a severe earthquake and powerful series of tsunami waves and was the second worst nuclear power accident in history.
Nuclear power plant explosion japan. 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. At the time of the tōhoku earthquake on 11 march 2011 reactors 4 5 and 6 were shut down in preparation for re fueling. However their spent fuel pools still required cooling.
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.
