How The Fukushima Nuclear Plant Melted Down | Fascinating Horror
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This short documentary tells the story of a triple nuclear meltdown which took place at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant following a tsunami in 2011...
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*CHAPTERS:* 🔖
► 00:00 - Intro
► 00:46 - Background
► 02:15 - The Fukushima Nuclear Disaster
► 10:33 - The Aftermath
*MUSIC:* 🎵
► "Glass Pond" by Public Memory
*SOURCES:* 📑
► "Fukushima plant site originally was a hill safe from tsunami" by Reiji Yoshida and Takahiro Fukada, published by Japan Times, July 2011. Available via: https://web.archive.org/web/20110901231937/https://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20110712x2.html
► "'Difficult-to-Return' zones" by Ruiko Muto, published by Beyond Nuclear International, March 2025. Link: https://beyondnuclearinternational.org/2025/03/09/difficult-to-return-zones/
► "Is Fukushima's exclusion zone doing more harm than radiation?" by Rupert Wingfield-Hayes, published by BBC News, March 2016. Link: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-35761136
► “Japan earthquake survivor: 'There was a silence, like the world had stopped then the quake hit'” by Rashid Razaq, published by The Standard, April 2012. Link: https://www.standard.co.uk/hp/front/japan-earthquake-survivor-there-was-a-silence-like-the-world-had-stopped-then-the-quake-hit-6576583.html
► "'There is hope here': Fukushima turns to tourism after nuclear meltdown" by Justin McCurry, published by The Guardian, October 2018. Link: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/oct/17/there-is-hope-here-fukushima-turns-to-tourism-after-nuclear-meltdown
► "The 2011 Japan Tsunami—Survivors Tell Their Stories" published by JW, December 2011. Link: https://www.jw.org/en/library/magazines/g201112/The-2011-Japan-Tsunami-Survivors-Tell-Their-Stories/
► "Ghosts of the Tsunami" by Richard Lloyd Parry, published by Vintage, May 2018. More info: https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Ghosts_of_the_Tsunami/xxRGDAAAQBAJ
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