Fukushima nuclear accident
Fukushima Daiichi Accident - World Nuclear Association
The Great East Japan Earthquake of magnitude 9.0 at 2.46 pm on Friday 11 March 2011 did considerable damage in the region, and the large tsunami it created ...
Fukushima nuclear accident - Wikipedia
The proximate cause of the accident was the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, which resulted in electrical grid failure and damaged nearly all of the power ...
Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Accident | IAEA
The accident at the Fukushima Daiichi site presented a unique challenge in fulfilling this mandate. Following the accident, the IAEA established a new approach ...
Fukushima disaster: What happened at the nuclear plant? - BBC
At the Fukushima nuclear power plant, the gigantic wave surged over coastal defences and flooded the reactors, sparking a major disaster.
Fukushima accident | Summary, Date, Effects, & Facts - Britannica
Fukushima accident, disaster that occurred in 2011 at the Fukushima Daiichi ('Number One') nuclear power plant on the Pacific coast of northern Japan, ...
The Fukushima-Daiichi Nuclear Power Station Accident: An overview
On 11 March 2011, the Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear power station (FDNPS) suffered major damage after the magnitude 9.0 great east-Japan earthquake and subsequent ...
The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident: 10 years later
Clean-up of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power facility will take at least another 30 years and will require technologies not yet invented.
Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident - Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA)
The Agency and its membership have been very active in understanding, assessing, and responding to the Fukushima Daiichi accident since it occurred in 2011.
Summary - Lessons Learned from the Fukushima Nuclear Accident ...
The March 11, 2011, Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami sparked a humanitarian disaster in northeastern Japan and initiated a severe nuclear accident at ...
Fukushima Nuclear Accident 2011 - VA Public Health
Fukushima Nuclear Accident 2011 · Names of nearly 70,000 Servicemembers and DOD-affiliated people potentially exposed to low doses of radiation ...
Backgrounder On NRC Response To Lessons Learned From ...
The Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Accident ... On March 11, 2011, a 9.0-magnitude earthquake struck Japan about 231 miles (372 kilometers) northeast of Tokyo off the ...
The Fukushima Daiichi Accident | IAEA
The Fukushima Daiichi Accident will be of use to national authorities, international organizations, nuclear regulatory bodies, nuclear power plant operating ...
Lessons Learned from the Fukushima Nuclear Accident for ...
The accident prompted widespread evacuations of local populations, large economic losses, and the eventual shutdown of all nuclear power plants in Japan.
Fukushima Radiation in U.S. West Coast Tuna | NOAA Fisheries
This accident released the radionuclides cesium 134Cs and 137Cs into the ocean next to the plant, exposing marine life to radioactive materials.
Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant Accident, Ten Years On
Much has been learnt in the ten years since the Great Eastern Japan Earthquake and the subsequent accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear ...
Understanding the accident of Fukushima Daiichi - YouTube
This film presents the sequence of the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi plant in March 2011.It explains how the boiling water reactor (BWR) ...
1. Emergency Responses Mandated in the Nuclear Emergency Preparedness Act, the · 2. Government Response after the Accident · 3. Response Taken by Fukushima ...
Fukushima Nuclear Accident - an overview | ScienceDirect Topics
The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster was a nuclear disaster at the Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant that began on March 11, 2011, and resulted in a meltdown ...
Radiation: Health consequences of the Fukushima nuclear accident
The average lifetime effective doses for adults in the Fukushima prefecture were estimated to be around 10 mSv or less, and about twice for 1-year old infants.
Factoring the Costs of Severe Nuclear Accidents into Backfit Decisions
The total cost of the Fukushima Daiichi accident could therefore exceed ¥20 trillion (~$200 billion). It is instructive to compare these costs to the estimates ...
Fukushima nuclear accident
Nuclear accidentThe Fukushima nuclear accident was a major nuclear accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Ōkuma, Fukushima, Japan which began on 11 March 2011.
Fukushima nuclear accident cleanup
The Fukushima disaster cleanup is an ongoing attempt to limit radioactive contamination from the three nuclear reactors involved in the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster that followed the earthquake and tsunami on 11 March 2011.
Fukushima nuclear accident
The Fukushima Daiichi reactor, was 1 out of 4 reactors seriously affected during the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster on 11 March 2011.
National Diet of Japan Fukushima Nuclear Accident Independent Investigation Commission
National Diet of Japan Fukushima Nuclear Accident Independent Investigation Commission or NAIIC is the commission to investigate the background and cause of Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster formed by the statutory law enactment by Diet of Japan on 7 October 2011 and started with the first commissioning meeting was held in Fukushima City, Fukushima Prefecture.
Radiation effects from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster
The radiation effects from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster are the observed and predicted effects as a result of the release of radioactive isotopes from the Fukushima Daiichii Nuclear Power Plant following the 2011 Tōhoku 9.0 magnitude earthquake and tsunami.
Chernobyl disaster
DisasterThe Chernobyl disaster began on 26 April 1986 with the explosion of the No. 4 reactor of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant near the city of Pripyat in northern Ukraine, near the Belarus border in the Soviet Union.