福島第一原子力発電所事故（ふくしまだいいちげんしりょくはつでんしょじこ）は、2011年3月11日の東北地方太平洋沖地震による地震動と津波の影響により東京電力の福島第一原子力発電所で発生した炉心溶融など一連の放射性物質の放出を伴った原子力事故。 Explore this topic

Japan's Nuclear Safety Commission is a commission established within the Cabinet of Japan as an independent agency to play the main role in nuclear safety administration. Commissioners are appointed by the Prime Minister of Japan on Diet approval. The commission has stronger a... Explore this topic

Tokyo Electric Power Company, Incorporated, also known as Toden or TEPCO, is a Japanese electric utilities servicing Japan's Kantō region, Yamanashi Prefecture, and the eastern portion of Shizuoka Prefecture. This area includes Tokyo. Its headquarters are located in Uchisaiwai... Explore this topic

Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south. The characters that make up... Explore this topic

The Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant, also known as Fukushima Dai-ichi, is a disabled nuclear power plant located on a 3.5-square-kilometre site in the towns of Okuma and Futaba in the Futaba District of Fukushima Prefecture, Japan. First commissioned in 1971, the plant consist... Explore this topic

See Wikipedia Page for 2011 Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami or 2011 Sendai Earthquake. Explore this topic

The United States and Japan have a firm and very active political relationship. The United States considers Japan to be one of its closest allies and the Japanese in turn have expressed appreciation for the consistent support of the United States. Japan is one of the most pro-... Explore this topic

Nuclear safety covers the actions taken to prevent nuclear and radiation accidents or to limit their consequences. This covers nuclear power plants as well as all other nuclear facilities, the transportation of nuclear materials, and the use and storage of nuclear materials fo... Explore this topic

A tsunami is a series of water waves caused by the displacement of a large volume of a body of water, typically an ocean or a large lake. Earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and other underwater explosions, landslides, glacier calvings, meteorite impacts and other disturbances abo... Explore this topic

A nuclear power plant is a thermal power station in which the heat source is a nuclear reactor. As is typical in all conventional thermal power stations the heat is used to generate steam which drives a steam turbine connected to a generator which produces electricity. As of 1... Explore this topic