The massive quake knocked out cooling systems to reactors at the country's Fukushima nuclear plant.
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.
Control Room operators did not always demonstrate high standards associated with nuclear plant operations.
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It spares neither the government nor Tokyo Electric Power (TEPCO), the operator of the nuclear plant.
However, the nuclear plant has not been affected and is working normally, officials have said.
His office is not far from the old Trojan nuclear plant, closed in 1992.
Israel and the US say the site was a nuclear plant in the making.
On Wednesday, the government gave planning consent for the nuclear plant to be built in Somerset.
Radioactive emissions from the proposed Hinkley Point C nuclear plant have been underestimated, campaigners claim.
If a nuclear plant moves in next door, you are a passive recipient of the risk.
They are more radioactive than is permissible for an emission from a nuclear plant.
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But the nuclear plant is still shut down, and locals have mixed feelings about it restarting.
According to Mr Fujimoto's models, the last existing nuclear plant could close down in 2049.
The radiation crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant has also compounded its problems.
The last nuclear plant to be built, at Sizewell, spent six years in a planning inquiry.
Call me the next time a nuclear plant gets built on time and under budget.
Thanks to planning delays, Sizewell B, Britain's newest nuclear plant, took 12 years to build.
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The last nuclear plant built in the UK was Sizewell B in Suffolk.
They bombed Iraq's nuclear plant in 1981 and did the same to the Syrian construction last year.
An extension to the life of the nuclear plant is unlikely, according to First Minister Rhodri Morgan.
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Three environmental permits enabling the operation of a new nuclear plant at Hinkley Point have been granted.
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For the 116 million Americans who live within 50 miles of a nuclear plant, that's cold comfort.
If the Shoreham nuclear plant moves in next door, you are a passive recipient of the risk.
Then there were the international worries about nuclear plant safety that pulled down the entire power sector.
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Sellafield nuclear plant is to undergo a value-for-money inspection after a report found it posed a "risk".
Since the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant is to be decommissioned, Japan will need new sources of electricity.
This followed radiation leaks at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant which was damaged by the earthquake and tsunami.
Monday marks the two-year anniversary of the 2011 earthquake and tsunami that crippled Japan's Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant.
Under state law, Georgia Power's customers must pay for the nuclear plant unless regulators find its costs were unreasonable.
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