Fukushima accident: References & Edit History
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Article History
| Type | Description | Contributor | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Modified link of Web site: IOPscience - The Fukushima nuclear accidenta decade on. | Sep 18, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission - Backgrounder on NRC Response to Lessons Learned from Fukushima. | Apr 17, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: NPR - Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Disaster: 10 Years Later. | Nov 28, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation - Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station Accident. | Sep 26, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: ABC listen - Late Night Live - Lessons of the Fukushima disaster. | Jul 28, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: National Center for Biotechnology Information - PubMed Central - Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant accident: facts, environmental contamination, possible biological effects, and countermeasures. | Apr 19, 2025 | ||
| Questions and answers added. | Feb 19, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: IOPscience - The Fukushima nuclear accidenta decade on. | Dec 17, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: BBC - Fukushima disaster: What happened at the nuclear plant? | Oct 28, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Digital Commons at University of South Florida - Lessons from Japan: Resilience after Tokyo and Fukushima. | Aug 16, 2024 | ||
| Links added. | Oct 23, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Energy Education - Fukushima nuclear accident. | Dec 02, 2022 | ||
| Add new Web site: International Atomic Energy Agency - Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Accident. | Aug 22, 2022 | ||
| Corrected display issue. | Jun 04, 2021 | ||
| Added information on the effects of the accident on marine life. | May 27, 2020 | ||
| Added a map of the Fukushima exclusion zone and associated evacuation areas. | Mar 13, 2018 | ||
| Corrected display issue. | Feb 06, 2018 | ||
| Described the geographic extent of the various evacuation zones and noted that in some areas evacuation orders had been lifted in the years following the disaster. | Feb 06, 2018 | ||
| Add new Web site: ReliefWeb - Fukushima Daiichi Power Plant Disaster: How many people were affected? | May 27, 2016 | ||
| Add new Web site: ReliefWeb - Fukushima Daiichi Power Plant Disaster: How Many People Were Affected? 2015 Report. | May 27, 2016 | ||
| Add new Web site: World Nuclear Association - Fukushima Daiichi Accident. | May 26, 2016 | ||
| Add new Web site: World Nuclear Association - Fukushima Accident of 2011. | Aug 26, 2013 | ||
| Add new Web site: World Nuclear Association - Fukushima Accident of 2011. | Aug 26, 2013 | ||
| Text describing August 2013 contaminated water release at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant changed from level 1 to level 3 on the International Nuclear and Radiological Event Scale. | Aug 22, 2013 | ||
| Text describing the large contaminated water leak of August 2013 added. | Aug 21, 2013 | ||
| Statements noting that earthquake-driven coolant pipe bursts may have caused partial meltdown of at least one reactor at Fukushima and that the Fukushima facility was now stable added. | Dec 21, 2011 | ||
| Text added noting that some residents, whose homes are located within the evacuation zone, have been allowed to return. | Oct 06, 2011 | ||
| Text added noting the creation of holes in the containment vessels of some of the reactors at the Daiichi facility. | May 31, 2011 | ||
| Text describing the damage to the containment vessel of reactor 1 added. | May 13, 2011 | ||
| New article added. | Apr 20, 2011 |
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