Fukushima
Proper noun
Meaning
A surname from Japanese.
A prefecture of Japan.
The capital city of Fukushima Prefecture, Japan.
The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster following a tsunami in 2011.
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Japanese people cut their energy use by 25 percent immediately after Fukushima. They showed there was huge opportunity there. And instead, the government simply wants to get those plants up and running again.
The nuclear industry has this amazing record, even equipment from generations one and two. But nuclear mishaps tend to come in these big events - Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, and now Fukushima - so it's more visible.
Although the activity concentrations were innocuous, they reached up to 100 times the levels of what had been detected over Europe in the aftermath of the Fukushima accident.
A different brutality is seen in Mighty Silence: Images of Destruction: The Great 2011 Earthquake and Tsunami of East Japan and Fukushima by Yasushi Handa (Skira, $75).
Assuredly, Japan’s government has made an informal decision to dump Fukushima Daiichi’s radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean.
In early April 2011, analysts at Swiss-based investment bank UBS said: "At Fukushima, four reactors have been out of control for weeks, casting doubt on whether even an advanced economy can master nuclear safety.