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Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster
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Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster
The was an
energy accident
at the
Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant
, initiated primarily by the
tsunami
of the
Tohoku earthquake
on 11 March 2011. The damage caused by the tsunami produced equipment failures, and without this equipment a
loss-of-coolant accident
followed with three
nuclear meltdowns
and releases of radioactive materials beginning on 12 March. It is the largest nuclear disaster since the
Chernobyl disaster
of 1986 and the second disaster (after Chernobyl) to be given the Level 7 event classification of the
International Nuclear Event Scale
.
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