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On March 11th, 2011, a 9.0 magnitude earthquake and tsunami named Tohoku hit Japan. The chain of events that followed immediately changed the feelings on nuclear power. After the earthquake occurred, there was a release of radioactive material along with a series of equipment failures at the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant. This plant consisted of six boiling water reactors preserved by the Tokyo Electric Power Company. This was indeed the largest nuclear accident in Japanese history, and theorists believe it to even be the second largest in the history of the world, behind only Chernobyl. | On March 11th, 2011, a 9.0 magnitude earthquake and tsunami named Tohoku hit Japan. The chain of events that followed immediately changed the feelings on nuclear power. After the earthquake occurred, there was a release of radioactive material along with a series of equipment failures at the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant. This plant consisted of six boiling water reactors preserved by the Tokyo Electric Power Company. This was indeed the largest nuclear accident in Japanese history, and theorists believe it to even be the second largest in the history of the world, behind only Chernobyl. | ||
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Nuclear Power
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Japanese Nuclear Disater at Fukushima
What Exactly Happened at Fukushima?
On March 11th, 2011, a 9.0 magnitude earthquake and tsunami named Tohoku hit Japan. The chain of events that followed immediately changed the feelings on nuclear power. After the earthquake occurred, there was a release of radioactive material along with a series of equipment failures at the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant. This plant consisted of six boiling water reactors preserved by the Tokyo Electric Power Company. This was indeed the largest nuclear accident in Japanese history, and theorists believe it to even be the second largest in the history of the world, behind only Chernobyl.
