Timeline & Events
This natural disaster duo triggered the Fukushima nuclear crisis
earthquake and tsunami
Approximately how many people were evacuated
160,000
True or False Japan made new regulations for water treatment or were they already safe and did not change
All three operating reactors at Fukushima Daiichi did this automatically right after the earthquake.
Shut down.
Fukushima population before the disaster.
about 2.03 million
This new Japanese agency was created to strengthen nuclear regulation
The Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA)
This event on March 15 caused serious damage around Reactor 2.
explosion
This town saw an 87% population drop following evacuation orders.
nahara
“Action Plan on Nuclear Safety"
The IAEA created this international plan for improved nuclear safety.
Backup generators failed because they were flooded by this.
tsunami wave
Birth rates in Fukushima changed by this percentage in the two years after the disaster.
5%
Cleanup costs for Fukushima are estimated at this massive amount.
$180–220 billion USD
what was the exact date of the accident
march 11,2011
By 2015, population fell by more than 110,000 (what percentage is this out of 2.3 million)
around 5.7
The ongoing challenge involves radioactive water and soil requiring these two processes
water treatment and storage