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Fukushima Disaster

Japan · Science / Nuclear Power. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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Chronological records

2011

Naoto Kan11 March 2011

Fukushima · Science / Nuclear Power

A uranium-fuelled reactor crisis follows the Tohoku earthquake.

Names involved

Naoto Kan

Provenance

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