Nuclear Disaster In Japan. Fukushima accident also called fukushima nuclear accident or fukushima daiichi nuclear accident accident in 2011 at the fukushima daiichi number one plant in northern japan the second worst nuclear accident in the history of nuclear power generation. The aftermath of the japan nuclear crisis and the fukushima daiichi nuclear disaster is that a radius of 50km around the plants is supposedly contaminated with high levels of radioactive caesium and even at the end of the year xenon another radioactive element was still leaking from power plant number 2.
The fukushima nuclear facility was a nuclear power plant to convert nuclear energy into electrical energy. The site is on japan s pacific coast in northeastern fukushima prefecture about 100 km 60 miles south of sendai. The fukushima dai ichi nuclear accident is a series of incidents including four separate explosions that took place at the naraha nuclear power plant in fukushima prefecture japan following the tōhoku earthquake and tsunami on march 11.
15 list of plants affected by 2011 tōhoku earthquake and tsunami edit.
On 14 june 2011 japan s cabinet passed the nuclear disaster compensation bill and a related budget to fund post tsunami reconstruction was also passed subsequently. As a result of a 14 meter tsunami wave and a 9 0 magnitudes earthquake the fukushima i daiichi atomic power plant in japan experienced a nuclear catastrophe of a level higher than the 1979 harrisburg accident maybe turning out to become even worse than the 1986 chernobyl catastrophe including several explosions fires failing cooling systems meltdown of fuel elements and uncontrolled. On 14 june 2011 japan s cabinet passed the nuclear disaster compensation bill and a related budget to fund post tsunami reconstruction was also passed subsequently. However japan s olympic minister yoshitaka sakurada resigned in early april this year after making comments that were offensive to the people affected by the disaster.
