Timeline & Events
Impacts on People & Population
laws & policies
100

This natural disaster duo triggered the Fukushima nuclear crisis

earthquake and tsunami

100

Approximately how many people were evacuated 

160,000

100

True or False Japan made new regulations for water treatment or were they already safe and did not change 

True
200

All three operating reactors at Fukushima Daiichi did this automatically right after the earthquake.

Shut down.

200

Fukushima population before the disaster.

about 2.03 million

200

This new Japanese agency was created to strengthen nuclear regulation

The Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA)

300

This event on March 15 caused serious damage around Reactor 2.

explosion

300

This town saw an 87% population drop following evacuation orders.

nahara

300

“Action Plan on Nuclear Safety"

The IAEA created this international plan for improved nuclear safety.

400

Backup generators failed because they were flooded by this.

tsunami wave

400

Birth rates in Fukushima changed by this percentage in the two years after the disaster.

5% 

400

Cleanup costs for Fukushima are estimated at this massive amount.

$180–220 billion USD

500

what was the exact date of the accident 

march 11,2011

500

By 2015, population fell by more than 110,000 (what percentage is this out of 2.3 million)

around 5.7


500

The ongoing challenge involves radioactive water and soil requiring these two processes

water treatment and storage