• 10 - The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, a human catastrophe - Disasters, True Stories

  • Jun 10 2022
  • Length: 16 mins
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10 - The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, a human catastrophe - Disasters, True Stories

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  • Located on the Pacific Ring of Fire, at the junction of the Eurasian, Pacific, Philippine and Okhotsk tectonic plates, Japan has always been exposed to high seismic activity. Every year, thousands of tremors, ranging from 4 to 7 on the Richter scale, are felt. Most of them are hardly noticeable, but the most violent ones bring with them devastating tsunamis. The tragedy at Fukushima Daiichi could also be called genpatsu-shinsai: an earthquake, the strongest ever recorded in Japan, rocked a nuclear power plant... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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