The Fukushima nuclear accident was a major nuclear accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Ōkuma, Fukushima, Japan, which began on 11 March 2011. The cause of the accident was the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, which resulted in electrical grid failure and damaged nearly all of the power plant's backup energy sources.

2025年3月11日 · Fukushima accident, disaster that occurred in 2011 at the Fukushima Daiichi (‘Number One’) nuclear power plant on the Pacific coast of northern Japan, which was caused by a severe earthquake and powerful series of tsunami waves and was the second worst nuclear power accident in history.

2023年8月23日 · At the Fukushima nuclear power plant, the gigantic wave surged over coastal defences and flooded the reactors, sparking a major disaster. Authorities set up an exclusion zone which grew larger...

2025年3月11日 · Fourteen years after the devastating earthquake and tsunami led to the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident, the site has made tangible progress in lowering radiation levels.

2024年3月11日 · Japan is marking 13 years since a massive earthquake and tsunami hit the country’s northern coasts, killing nearly 20,000 people, wiping out whole towns and destroying the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

2025年3月26日 · Robots to extract 41.5 tonnes of radioactive sandbags at Japan’s Fukushima plant Measurements on the bags’ surface reveal exposure rates as high as 4.4 sieverts per hour. Updated: Mar 26, 2025 ...

2021年3月5日 · Fukushima Timeline: How an Earthquake Triggered Japan’s 2011 Nuclear Disaster. An earthquake, a tsunami...and then a devastating power plant failure.

2024年1月12日 · Since 2013 the IAEA has led five international peer review missions on the Mid-and-Long-Term Roadmap towards the Decommissioning of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station. The IAEA also continues to provide assistance to the Fukushima Prefecture government in radiation monitoring and remediation.

2025年1月10日 · The suspension of Japan's nuclear fleet after the Fukushima accident significantly increased dependence on natural gas, oil, and coal imports to make up for lost domestic nuclear generation.

Fukushima accident, also called Fukushima nuclear accident or Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident, Nuclear accident at the Tokyo Electric and Power Co. (TEPCO) Fukushima Daiichi (“Number One”) plant in northern Japan, which became the second worst nuclear accident in the history of nuclear power generation. Tsunami waves generated by the ...