Five months later, the massive earthquake and tsunami in Japan crippled the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.
Friday's breakdown at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant lasted around three hours, Tepco said.
The radiation crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant has also compounded its problems.
This followed radiation leaks at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant which was damaged by the earthquake and tsunami.
Radiation levels for miles around the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in Japan are at dangerous levels and the crisis is not yet over.
He says he is even readying a proposal for a solar facility inside the contaminated no-go zone around the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.
The move comes 11 months after a tsunami in Japan wrecked the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, leaking radioactive material into the air and sea.
The number of workers grappling with an increasingly likely nuclear meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in Japan has been cut from 800 to 50.
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The earthquake and tsunami caused extensive damage to its Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, resulting in radiation leaks which forced the evacuation of almost 80, 000 people from the surrounding area.
The New York Times had a marvelous feature this morning on how Japanese officials failed to plan for the mega-earthquake and tsunami that overwhelmed the aging Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.
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The six-reactor Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant was badly damaged after the 11 March 2011 earthquake and tsunami knocked out cooling systems to reactors, leading to meltdowns and the release of radioactivity.
Two years ago, on March 14, 2011, the National Nuclear Security Administration sent flight crews to Japan to monitor airborne and ground contamination from the still developing nuclear crisis at the Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear plant.
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But the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant was incapable of withstanding the earthquake and tsunami that hit on that day.
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The Japanese government reported today that radiation levels are dangerously high inside Units 1 and 3 at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant (FDI).
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"Although triggered by these cataclysmic events, the subsequent accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant cannot be regarded as a natural disaster, " it said.
The NRC launched a widespread review of U.S. nuclear safety after the meltdowns at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in 2011 caused by that nation's devastating tsunami.
If the good news from the manufacturers is overshadowed by more problems at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, then the ProShares UltraShort MSCI Japan (NYSE: EWV) may climb higher.
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My story Sunday saying that the danger from radiation in Japan will remain small even if things at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant go horribly wrong generated a lot of response.
Toyota had to face the devastating effects of the earthquake and tsunami that battered Japan two years ago, disrupting its global supply chain and causing a partial meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.
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Toyota had a difficult couple of years given the disruption in its global supply chain caused by the earthquake-cum-tsunami that battered Japan in 2011, causing a partial meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.
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In the mid-afternoon on Friday, March 11 the seismic sensors at the Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear power plant in the Fukushima Prefecture of Japan registered the earliest indications of the largest earthquake in modern Japanese history.
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Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear-power plant sustained its worst power outage since a blackout in 2011 sent its reactors spinning out of control.
According to Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), workers at the Fukushima Daiichi (FDI) nuclear power plant have been evacuated.
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The 20-kilometer (12.5 miles) evacuation zone surrounding the Fukushima Daiichi (FDI) nuclear power plant will be expanded, Japanese government officials announced today.
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Even as Japanese responders continue to do heroic work, we know that the damage to the nuclear reactors in Fukushima Daiichi plant poses a substantial risk to people who are nearby.
The Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco), which operates the damaged nuclear plant, announced that all six reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi plant, designed by General Electric, and all four, undamaged reactors at the Fukushima Daini plant have been shut off.
Last month, Noda issued a sobering and reflective assessment of his country's recovery a year after the 9.0-magnitude earthquake, tsunami and nuclear meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi plant.
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An earthquake and ensuing tsunami in Japan early in the year rocked the nuclear community after the Fukushima Daiichi plant, operated by Tepco, suffered substantial damage to various reactors and some partial meltdowns, with radiation leakage.
Japan's stocks lost 17% in 2011 in the wake of March's devastating tsunami, which saw 20, 000 lives lost and affected manufacturing of some of the world's most vital component suppliers, not to mention severe damage to the country's energy sector, including a nuclear meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi plant.
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