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Fukushima nuclear disaster
A tsunami disabled cooling at Fukushima Daiichi, causing meltdowns and radioactive releases.
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What is stated, why it matters, and what remains uncertain
What this is
A specific-event record selected from the protected World Events source ledger for cross-year research. It is not an exhaustive account of 2011.
Why it matters
It reshaped nuclear policy, energy debates, and disaster planning worldwide.
What is established here
The page faithfully exposes the submitted record and its source boundary. No claim-level evidence packet has yet upgraded the record beyond a research starting point.
What remains uncertain
Starting-point source from the submitted dataset; verify exact dates, attribution, legal posture, casualty figures, and current status before reuse.
Record narrative
Source-bounded summary
A tsunami disabled cooling at Fukushima Daiichi, causing meltdowns and radioactive releases.
It reshaped nuclear policy, energy debates, and disaster planning worldwide.
Structured fields
Record at a glance
- Stable record ID
- 2011-004
- Date or period
- 2011-03-11
- Type
- Nuclear / industrial disaster
- Focus
- Energy / safety
- Impact scope
- Global
- Priority
- 5 of 5
- Location label
- Fukushima, Japan
- Coordinate precision
- City-level coordinate
- Actors named by the source record
- TEPCO; Japanese government; IAEA
- Verification state
- source-start-point; sensitive details require independent verification
Geographic context
A coordinate locator, not a surveyed event footprint
The submitted record supplies 37.7608, 140.4747 with the precision label “City-level coordinate.” Multi-location events, disputed borders, campaigns, and broad regions cannot be reduced to one point.
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This remains a starting-point record
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Citation and correction
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2IA — International Intelligence Archive. “Fukushima nuclear disaster.” World Events record 2011-004. Reviewed July 27, 2026. https://2ix.org/world-events/2011/2011-004/