On March 11, 2011, the largest earthquake ever recorded in Japan causes massive devastation, and the ensuing tsunami decimates the Tōhoku region of northeastern Honshu. On top of the already-horrific destruction and loss of life, the natural disaster also gives rise to a nuclear disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. The Fukushima disaster is considered the second-worst nuclear disaster in history, forcing the relocation of over 100,000 people.
During the emergency, each of the three operational nuclear reactors at the Fukushima plant shut down successfully, but the backup power and cooling systems failed. As a result, residual heat caused fuel rods in all three reactors to partially melt down. As crews searched the rubble for survivors and the nation reeled from the earthquake and ensuing tsunami, the nuclear disaster unfolded over the course of several days.
Reactors 1 and 3 exploded on March 12 and 14, respectively, prompting the government to evacuate everyone within a 20km radius. Another explosion in the building housing Reactor 2 on March 15 released even more radiation, and thousands of people left their homes as workers used helicopters, water cannons and seawater pumps to try to cool the overheating facility.
The full extent of the fallout became apparent over the ensuing months, with the government eventually evacuating all residents within a 30km radius of the plant. No deaths were initially attributed to the incident, although this was of little comfort to the 154,000 who were evacuated or the loved ones of the more than 18,000 people who lost their lives as a result of the earthquake and tsunami. Some have suggested that such a large evacuation was not necessary, as radiation levels appear to have dropped below what was expected in the immediate wake of the accident.
Though many were able to return to their homes, a 371-square-kilometer “difficult-to-return zone” remains evacuated as of 2021, and the true toll may not be known for decades. In 2018, the government announced that former plant worker who had served during the meltdown was the first death officially attributed to radiation from the disaster, which today is considered second only to Chernobyl in the ranking of infamous nuclear incidents.
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The design and location of the plant was idiotic – the way the pumps could get short-circuited by a tsunami. It was only idiotic in retrospect, though. Obvious errors aren’t obvious upfront. Better-run nuclear power is indispensable. Maybe small thorium reactors.
Remember the hysteria that followed …. even here on TBP. “The Pacific Ocean is gonna DIE!!!”. I might have participated in it …but, I don’t remember.
Nevertheless, it still has a lasting effect. I now eat very little tuna … once a month, twice max … whereby prior it was 2-3 times a week. And I still won’t touch tuna from the Pacific … where the vast majority of tuna is caught.
Chernobyl was kept somewhat localized. Have they stopped the leakage into the ocean yet?
NO. And now they are asking to be allowed to dump a billion or something gallons of radioactive waste water into the Pacific (as if they haven’t been doing that all along). Chernobyl continues to be a disaster, just with a giant concrete lid (great documentary on how they did it). But they aren’t on an ocean, or on a massive fault.
The crisis never disappeared, just the news stories about it. Now they are claiming they have run out of space and need to dump hundreds of millions of gallons of radioactive water into the Pacific. Much like the chemtrails lies, they have been dumping all along, and are now looking to pretend its ok as cover, and to free up some additional resources.