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. 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.
4 reactors at kansai electric power co s takahama nuclear power plant in fukui prefecture central japan. 3 l and no. File photo taken from a kyodo news helicopter on may 30 2019 shows the no.
Of the total costs 5 4 trillion yen was for safety measures implemented as of last month at 15 power plants they are trying to restart. A powerful explosion hits a badly damaged japanese nuclear power plant as a huge relief operation continues after friday s devastating earthquake and tsunami. 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.
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.
