Massive amounts of radioactive water being stored at japan s fukushima power plant could be released into the sea under plans provisionally accepted by the country s government. 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. This led to several meltdowns allowing harmful radioactive fuel rods and.
In 2011 a 33ft 10m high tsunami that killed nearly 19 000 people crashed into japan s fukushima nuclear power plant. 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.
Three reactors at the fukushima dai ichi plant suffered meltdowns in a massive 2011 earthquake and tsunami that. Fukushima nuclear plant hit by tsunami running out of room for radioactive water. 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. 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.
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.
