Japanese Journal of Medical Physics (Igakubutsuri)
Online ISSN : 2186-9634
Print ISSN : 1345-5354
ISSN-L : 1345-5354
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The Accidents of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plants and Future
Masaharu Hoshi
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2012 Volume 32 Issue 4 Pages 197-201

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A massive earthquake of magnitude 9 terribly happened far out at sea of Tohoku area on 11 March, 2011. After this earthquake the hugest tsunami in the history came to the hundreds km of the seashore of Tohoku area. Due to this tsunami all of the four nuclear power plants of Fukushima Daiichi lost every electric power and, soon after this, loss nuclear fuels from number 1 to 3 reactors melt through their power containers. According to this phenomena, large amount of the radio-activities have been released in the air. There were some releases but major contaminations happened at the time of the two releases in the morning of 15 March, 2011. Due to this, to the direction of the northwest until the Iitate Village over 30 km zone was contaminated. In this paper I explain the time course of the accidents and that how contaminated.
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