fukushima-ken (japan)

"On March 11, 2011, the largest earthquake ever measured in Japan occurred off the northeast coast. It triggered a tsunami with a wall of water 128 feet high. The tsunami damaged the nuclear power plant in Fukushima triggering the nightmare scenario--a nuclear meltdown. For six days, employees at the plant worked to contain the meltdown and disaster workers scoured the surrounding flooded area for survivors. This book examines the science behind such a massive disaster and looks back at the people who experienced an unprecedented trifecta of destruction"--From the publisher's web site.

Discusses the massive tsunami caused by the strongest earthquake to ever hit Japan that triggered the world's worst nuclear crisis since the Chernobyl accident twenty-five years earlier.

Presents an account of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant disaster that followed a massive earthquake and tsunami on March 11, 2011, and that soon became the worst nuclear disaster in history.