2011 Sendai disaster

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The 2011 Sendai disaster was a series of events that took place in Sendai, Japan.

The disaster began with a magnitude 9.0 earthquake 130 kilometers off Japan's eastern coast, at a depth of 32 kilometers, on 2011-03-11. The earthquake triggered a tsunami with waves of up to 10 meters, some of which traveled as far as 10 kilometers inland.

These combined events in turn caused damage at two nuclear power plants operated by the Tokyo Electric Power Company, the Fukushima I and II nuclear power plants. The Fukushima II (or "Daini") plant was shut down successfully (though with some concerns about radiation leakage), but the backup systems at Fukushima I (or "Da-ichi") were overwhelmed, causing several explosions and considerable radiation leakage. The situation remains uncontrolled as of this writing.

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 * 2014-02-26 Outside Fukushima exclusion zone, residents getting minor radiation dose "Equal to the normal background, but unlikely to cause detectable health problems."
 * 2011-03-23 U.S. Government Response to the Earthquake and Tsunami in Japan
 * 2011-03-14 Japan nuclear plant's fuel rods were fully exposed: didn't BusinessInsider (below) just say this couldn't happen?
 * 2011-03-13
 * Fukushima risks: Potential health consequences of the explosion at the Fukushima reactor in Japan, from the Low Level Radiation Campaign
 * You Can STOP WORRYING ABOUT A RADIATION DISASTER IN JAPAN -- Here's Why
 * 2011-03-11 Post Postponed because of Earthquake - large collection of links about the disaster