Fukushima : Japan's tsunami and the inside story of the nuclear meltdowns

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Fukushima : Japan's tsunami and the inside story of the nuclear meltdowns

Title remainder

Japan's tsunami and the inside story of the nuclear meltdowns

Statement of responsibility

Mark Willacy

Creator

• Willacy, Mark

Author

• Willacy, Mark

Subject

• Nuclear power plants -- Accidents -- Japan | Fukushima-ken
• Nuclear reactor accidents -- Japan | Fukushima-ken
• Radioactive pollution -- Japan | Fukushima-ken
• trueTohoku Earthquake and Tsunami, Japan, 2011
• trueFukushima Nuclear Disaster, Japan, 2011
• Tsunami damage -- Japan | Fukushima-ken
• Tōhoku Region (Japan) -- Social conditions -- 21st century
• T寨oku Region (Japan) -- Social conditions -- 21st century
• Tohoku Region (Japan) -- Social conditions -- 21st century
• trueJapan -- Politics and government -- 21st century

Language

eng

Summary

On 11 March 2011, Japan was rocked by the most violent earthquake in her history and one of the largest ever recorded. The quake itself was just the start of a chain of disastrous events, creating a massive tsunami that slammed the shores of north eastern Japan. Close to 20,000 people were killed or disappeared under waves that reached more than 40 metres high as they smashed their way several kilometres inland. Yet the greatest damage was caused when the tsunami surged over the seawall of Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear power station, resulting in a multiple core meltdown that released vast quantities of radioactivity into the atmosphere and ocean. At one stage it even threatened the evacuation and irradiation of Tokyo itself, which would have spelt the end of Japan as we know it

Dewey number

363.1799

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps
• portraits
• plates

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography