Investigations into the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster information
Investigations into the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster
Satellite image on 16 March 2011 of the four damaged reactor buildings
Date
11 March 2011 (2011-03-11)
Location
Futaba-machi and Okuma-machi, Futaba-gun, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan
Outcome
INES Level 7 (ratings by Japanese authorities as of 11 April)[1]
Non-fatal injuries
37 with physical injuries,[2] 2 workers taken to hospital with radiation burns[3]
Investigations into the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Disaster (or Accident)[4] began on 11 March 2011 when a series of equipment failures, core melt and down, and releases of radioactive materials occurred at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station
from the 2011 off the Pacific coast of Tohoku Earthquake and tsunami on the same day.[5][6]
^"Fukushima accident upgraded to severity level 7". IEEE Spectrum. 12 April 2011. Archived from the original on 11 March 2014.
^Cite error: The named reference IAEAtsunami1 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
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"Radiation-exposed workers to be treated at Chiba hospital". Kyodo News. 25 March 2011. Archived from the original on 17 February 2013. Retrieved 17 April 2011.
^"Explainer: What went wrong in Japan's nuclear reactors". IEEE Spectrum. 4 April 2011. Archived from the original on 21 August 2011.
^It is the largest nuclear disaster since the Chernobyl disaster of 1986.
"Japan's unfolding disaster 'bigger than Chernobyl'". The New Zealand Herald. 2 April 2011. Archived from the original on 30 March 2020. Retrieved 30 January 2013.
"Analysis: A month on, Japan nuclear crisis still scarring" Archived 16 April 2011 at the Wayback Machine International Business Times (Australia). 9 April 2011, retrieved 12 April 2011; excerpt, According to James Acton, Associate of the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, "Fukushima is not the worst nuclear accident ever but it is the most complicated and the most dramatic...This was a crisis that played out in real time on TV. Chernobyl did not."
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