For those who aren’t familiar with the nuclear reactor disaster in Fukushima, in March 2011, a disaster struck when a 9.0 earthquake shook the Japanese coast, triggering a tsunami that flooded the power plant and disabled the backup diesel generators that were maintaining power for the cooling system. The failure of the cooling system caused the temperature and pressure inside the reactors to rise rapidly, leading to partial meltdowns in three reactors, which later caused a hydrogen gas explosion and further damage.
Despite the numerous nuclear reactor disasters that have occurred since our use of nuclear energy for power generation began, nuclear power remains one of the most eco-friendly energy sources we have to date, with negligibly small amounts of pollution—unless cooling systems fail, then we have a problem on our hands.
Source: TEPCO
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