On 11 March 2011 the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami knocked out power and cooling at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant on the Japanese coast, melting three reactor cores. The accident led Japan to idle its reactor fleet, Germany to legislate a full nuclear exit, and safety regulators worldwide to reassess extreme external hazards.
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Milestone Year Milestone Date LocationFukushima Prefecture, Japan 1 Connections
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IAEA coordinated international assistance after the accident through its Incident and Emergency Centre and published its comprehensive report The Fukushima Daiichi Accident in 2015 with five technical volumes.
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The accident is the reason the largest nuclear plant in the world has stood idle since; both plants are TEPCO stations.
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World Nuclear AssociationSafety of Plants, Fukushima Daiichi Accident, tsunami disabled cooling
a 15-metre tsunami disabled the power supply and cooling of three Fukushima Daiichi reactors, causing a nuclear accident beginning on 11 March 2011.
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- Associated With: Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant
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On 11 March 2011, a major nuclear accident started at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Ōkuma, Fukushima, Japan.
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