While the earthquake killed more than 15, 000 people, no deaths have been blamed on the nuclear disaster that followed.
And why would anyone want to tour the site of the worst nuclear disaster in history anyway?
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But with the Fukushima nuclear disaster in 2011 rumors spread of radioactive contamination of many Japanese products.
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She has performed in concerts benefiting child victims of the Balkan wars and Chernobyl nuclear disaster victims.
Negligence forms the backdrop for the first government-commissioned report into the Fukushima nuclear disaster, released in late December.
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Then, in March, Japan was hit by a devastating earthquake that triggered a tsunami and, ultimately, a nuclear disaster.
It took the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in Ukraine for the nuclear industry to focus collectively on reactor operating safety.
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After the war, some bunkers left were kept on standby in case of another war or a nuclear disaster.
The crisis was regarded as the worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl in 1986.
More recently, many predicted that Japan's rebuilding after the March 2011 nuclear disaster would lift its stock market higher.
The environment ministry, created after the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster, has many ideas.
He said the whole world wanted such measures because "an accident similar to the Chernobyl nuclear disaster must be averted".
Predictably, the nuclear disaster in Japan caused the ELEMENTS Credit Suisse Global Warming Index Exchange-Traded Note ( GWO) to surge.
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In the Fukushima nuclear disaster, the world learned a lesson about how easily a global supply chain can be disrupted.
Yoshihiko Noda takes over a nation struggling to rebuild after a devastating earthquake and tsunami in March triggered a nuclear disaster.
The 3.11.2011 disaster, and especially the Fukushima nuclear disaster and resulting nationwide nuclear plant shutdown, are a big part of the reason.
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For nine days, all eyes were focused on Japan as traders and investors alike worried about the potential for a nuclear disaster.
To hear the bears tell it, the combination of the earthquake, the tsunami, and the potential nuclear disaster will undoubtedly slow the Japanese economy.
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Such a decision would be the first since the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, which has led to a nation-wide review of nuclear safety standards.
Coming into Tuesday morning, the market seemed simple enough to understand as stocks were being pummeled globally on fears of a nuclear disaster in Japan.
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After a long apology for the "inconvenience" caused by the nuclear disaster, Mr Takahashi explained just how long and difficult the clean up would be.
The three operating reactors at Fukushima Daiichi melted down after the earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan in March 2011, creating the worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl in 1986.
The Three Mile Island nuclear disaster, the medieval origins of primogeniture and evolutionary biology are all enlisted to shed light on different aspects of financial risk.
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The nuclear disaster has come at a crucial time for the world, as most of the governments of the developed world weigh alternatives to traditional carbon-based fuels.
This may be the biggest public health risk so far from the nuclear plant, aside from the danger to people actually working on containing the nuclear disaster.
Japan has few natural resources and the cost of importing fuel has increased after a backlash against nuclear power following the Fukushima nuclear disaster two years ago.
Vollman, whose narrative persona walks the thin edge between reason and reason-to-worry, treks to Japan weeks after the March 11 earthquake creates the greatest nuclear disaster since Chernobyl.
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In 1986, the fourth reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear complex in the Ukraine exploded and caught fire, spreading a radioactive cloud across Europe in the world's worst nuclear disaster.
"A nuclear disaster which the promoters of nuclear power in Japan said wouldn't happen is in progress, " the Tokyo-based Citizens' Nuclear Information Center said in a statement on its website.
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