How long did Fukushima last?

The earthquake was centred 130 km offshore the city of Sendai in Miyagi prefecture on the eastern coast of Honshu Island (the main part of Japan), and was a rare and complex double quake giving a severe duration of about 3 minutes.

How old is Fukushima power plant?

1971
First commissioned in 1971, the plant consists of six boiling water reactors. These light water reactors drove electrical generators with a combined power of 4.7 GWe, making Fukushima Daiichi one of the 15 largest nuclear power stations in the world.

What happened at Fukushima and why?

What happened at Fukushima? Systems at the nuclear plant detected the earthquake and automatically shut down the nuclear reactors. Workers rushed to restore power, but in the days that followed the nuclear fuel in three of the reactors overheated and partly melted the cores – something known as a nuclear meltdown.

What was the most recent nuclear power accident in France?

Fuel cycle. 50 kg of uranium in one of the reactors at the Saint-Laurent Nuclear Power Plant began to melt, an event classified at ‘level 4’ on the International Nuclear Event Scale (INES). As of March 2011, this remains the most serious civil nuclear power accident in France.

How much energy does France use from nuclear power?

Nuclear power in France. Electricity production in France has been dominated by nuclear power since the early 1980s with a large portion of that power exported today. Nuclear power is a major source of energy in France, with a 40% share of energy consumption in 2015.

Where was the worst nuclear accident in Japan?

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,…

Where was the first nuclear power plant built in France?

Work on the first three plants, at Tricastin, Gravelines, and Dampierre started the same year and France installed 56 reactors over the next 15 years.