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What happened to Fukushima in March 2011...?

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Japan suffered from worst of the disasters this year.  The calamities went worse to the possible levels, as a major nuclear accident accompanied a strong earthquake and a subsequent tsunami.  This nuclear accident is considered second only to the worst ever nuclear accident at Chernobyl and is the largest in the history of Japan.                                                                                      Fukushima is a major industrial town in the northwest coast of Japan.. On 11, March 2011, an earthquake with reading 9 on the Richter’s shook areas close to Tokyo, having its epicenter on the islands of Honshu. This earthquake drove a series of huge tsunami waves to the coastal areas present around.   As Fukushima’s nuclear power station was...