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Hit by a magnitude-9.0 earthquake and an ensuing tsunami on March 11, 2011, the Fukushima plant suffered core meltdowns that released radiation, resulting in a level-7 nuclear accident, the highest on the International Nuclear and Radiological Event Scale. The plant has been generating a massive...
A magnitude 9.0 earthquake off the coast of Japan triggered a tsunami that hit the Fukushima power plant, triggering meltdowns in three reactors that contaminated the cooling water. The accident was given the highest rating on the International Nuclear and Radiological ...
Hit by a magnitude-9.0 earthquake and an ensuing tsunami on March 11, 2011, the Fukushima plant suffered core meltdowns that released radiation, resulting in a level-7 nuclear accident, the highest on the International Nuclear and Radiological Event Scale.The plant has been generating a massive...
日本政府宣布8月24日启动福岛核污水排海 Japan to start releasing Fukushima wastewater as soon as Thursday 当地时间22日，日本政府举行相关阁僚会议后正式宣布，将从8月24日开始将福岛第一核电站核污染水排放入海。图片：新华社Japanese government announced Tuesday it has decided to start releasing nuclear-...
On March 11, 2011, a magnitude-9.0 earthquake struck off the coast of Fukushima Prefecture in Japan. An earthquake-triggered tsunami engulfed the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, causing core meltdowns in units one to three and leading to the worst nuclear crisis since Chernobyl. ...
"Our position has not changed, and we continue to be opposed to the ocean discharge," Masanobu Sakamoto, head of the National Federation of Fisheries Cooperative Associations said after the meeting. Hit by a magnitude-9.0 earthquake and an ensuing tsunami on March 11, 2011, the plant suffered...
This quake and the ensuing tsunami crippled Japan's Fukushima nuclear power plant, about 150 miles north of Tokyo. Within days, three of the plant's six reactors had suffered severe fuel damage—and possibly even melted down—raising fears of radiation dispersal in Japan and around the world....
Japan Fishermen Oppose 'Catastrophic' Release of Fukushima Water to Ocean More Reuters FILE PHOTO: An employee of Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO) uses a geiger counter next to storage tanks for radioactive water at TEPCO's tsunami-crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in ...
After an earthquake and tsunami rocked Japan in 2011, the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant quickly became a disaster of its own.