This study explores root causes of the Fukushima Daiichi disaster and discusses how an urgent situation, such as a station blackout (SBO), should be addressed on an organizational and managerial level so that future disasters may be prevented. First, based on the summary of the literature on ...
On March 11, 2011, the Great East Japan Earthquake struck Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant, triggering a total station blackout and a disastrous nuclear accident. Radioactive cores of three reactors (Units 1, 2, and 3) melted, the hot fuel fell through the primary pressure vessels and breached...
Little progress has been made over the past year on the most pivotal and hardest work of decommissioning the Fukushima Daiichi power plant -- how to remove the nuclear residue from the meltdown. Japan's International Research Institute for Nuclear Decommissioning estimated that the total weight of ...
TOKYO, June 17 (Xinhua) -- Japan's top court on Friday ruled that the government was not responsible for the disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear power plant in 2011 and need not pay damages to the near 4,000 people whose lives were adversely affected by the crisis. The ruling by ...
in the weeks and months following the disaster, another major crisis developed after a meltdown in reactor cores at the Daiichi plant caused anuclear accidentthere that forced officials to create a wide evacuation zone around the stricken facility.Communitieswithin a 12.5-mile (20-km) radius of ...
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The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan was (severe) damaged by a tsunami in 2011, leading to a major nuclear disaster. Since then, water has been continuously used (cool) the damaged reactors (反应堆) and prevent further damage. Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), the (operate...
2, operated by the Japan Atomic Power Co., is the first reactor to be rejected under safety standards adopted in 2013 based on lessons from the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi meltdown disaster following a massive earthquake and tsunami. “We reached our conclusion based ...
Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster 双语例句 1. The crisis at the Fukushima nuclear plant was “a profoundly man-made disaster” , a Japanese parliamentary panel has said in a report. 日本国会福岛核事故调查委员会近日公布调查报告,称福岛核事故“完全是人为灾难”。
Saito recalls staring helplessly out of his hospital room window as waves inundated the town beneath him. His first thought was of the nearby Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. “If the tsunami caused the plant to lose power to cool the reactors, it would be a disaster.” ...