What Happened In Fukushima

What happened at fukushima daiichi.
What happened in fukushima. The earthquake and tsunami triggered the worst nuclear accident since chernobyl. As of 27 february 2017 the fukushima prefecture government counted 2 129 disaster related deaths in the prefecture. 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. On march 11 2011 an earthquake that became reason of failure of power supply at the nuclear power station of fukushima happened in japan.
This value exceeds the number that have died in fukushima prefecture directly from the earthquake and tsunami. An analysis by the carnegie endowment in march 2012 said that if best practices from other countries had been adopted by tepco and nisa at fukushima the serious accident would not have happened underlining the need for greater international regulatory collaboration. Tepco and the government of japan have provided many explanations. Satellite image of fukushima s plant reactors.
However their spent fuel pools still required cooling. These problems were caused by earthquake and following tsunami near to sendai town in north east of tokyo. As a result of what happened in accidents in units 1 2 and 3 a total of 10 workers were hospitalized one of them have received a higher dose to 100msv and two tepco workers are missing without having been confirmed their presence at the plant the day of the quake. At the time of the tÅhoku earthquake on 11 march 2011 reactors 4 5 and 6 were shut down in preparation for re fueling.
An explanation video about the chain of events which have caused nuclear reactor problems in fukushima nuclear power plant in japan. What really happened at the fukushima daiicihi nuclear power plant to cause a meltdown. They don t make sense. Flooded a tsunami reserve diesel generators and the station remained without a power supply.
In the mid afternoon on the 11th match 2011 the giant earthquake with moment magnitude of 9 0 in japan. The great east earthquake occurred at 2 46pm on march 11th recorded magnitude 9 0 has given tremendous damage to the northern part of japan especially in the prefectures of fukushima miyagi and iwate.