Fukushima Nuclear Disaster in Japan With respect to the March 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan explain, with reasoning, the methodology that would be most suitable in order to research the impact that the disaster had on world-wide nuclear power.
Fukushima accident, also called Fukushima nuclear accident or Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident, accident in 2011 at the Fukushima Daiichi (“Number One”) plant in northern Japan, the second worst nuclear accident in the history of nuclear power generation. The site is on Japan’s Pacific coast, in northeastern Fukushima prefecture about 100 km (60 miles) south of Sendai. The facility, operated by the Tokyo Electric and Power Company (TEPCO), was made up of six boiling-water reactors constructed between 1971 and 1979.