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Japan marks 15 years since tsunami disaster as Takaichi pushes more nuclear energy use
Japan faces challenges reviving nuclear energy with only 15 reactors operating and a 2024 nuclear power share of 8.3 percent, despite government targets for 20 percent by 2040.
- On March 11, 2011 the earthquake and tsunami struck off Japan's northeastern coast, triggering damage to the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant; fifteen years later, the 2011 disaster remains central to debates about risk and preparedness.
- The 3.11 Densho Road project connects northeastern Japan memorial sites, while the NIPPON Disaster Prevention Assets framework launched in 2024 certifies programs conveying past disaster lessons.
- Officials recorded massive losses, noting almost 20,000 people were killed and economic losses exceeded US$235 billion amid scenes of buildings and farms swept away.
- Reconstruction efforts relocated housing to new residential areas in highland zones while converting low-lying coastal zones to green buffers, agricultural land or memorial spaces, but Japan's seismic engineering standards and coastal defences cannot eliminate all risk.
- Memorials both domestic and international include a Harley-Davidson motorcycle found on Graham Island, Haida Gwaii, now displayed at the Harley-Davidson Museum in Milwaukee, while bystanders prayed at 2:46 p.m. on March 11, 2025, in Tokyo.
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Fifteen years ago, a violent earthquake caused a deadly tsunami in the Fukushima region of Japan. Waves, sometimes high as buildings, are the main cause of the heavy human impact of nearly 18,500 dead or missing as a result of the disaster. The nuclear accident that followed at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant, invaded by the waves, where the hearts of three of the six reactors melted, forced the evacuation of tens of thousands of people and re…
Fifteen years ago, Fukushima's nuclear power plant was damaged, but Japan and other countries continue to rely on nuclear power. Germany, on the other hand, has gone out – with serious consequences for energy security, electricity prices and emissions.
It was the biggest nuclear disaster since Chernobyl in 1986: exactly 15 years ago, an earthquake with tsunami led to the super-GAU at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan. People there thought of the victims today. A review of 11 March 2011 and the consequences of the nuclear disaster.
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