Feature - One Year After the Fukushima Disaster
Jean Gaumy
At 14:46 local time on Friday, March 11, 2011, a magnitude 9.0 earthquake occurred off the coast of northeast Japan, one of the most powerful in recorded history. Fifty-five minutes later, a huge tsunami unleashed by the quake crashed ashore, destroying cities along approximately 600km of coastline with hundreds of thousands of people. Four nuclear power plants had shut down automatically, but the waves caused by the tsunami engulfed some sensitive equipments of the Fukushima Daiichi power plant, provoking a chain of events that will lead to the worst nuclear disaster since the 1986 Chernobyl disaster....
