Fukushima Nuclear Crisis

Campbell, Richard J. ; Holt, Mark

Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service.

关键词: Energy;    Nuclear energy;    Foreign policy;    Foreign relations -- U.S. -- Japan;    Foreign relations -- Japan -- U.S.;   

RP-ID  :  R41694
RP-ID  :  R41694_2011Apr04

美国|英语

来源: UNT Digital Library

【 摘 要 】

This report briefly discusses the March 11, 2001 earthquake off the east coast of Honshu, Japan's largest island. The earthquake caused an automatic shutdown of eleven of Japan's fifty-five operating nuclear power plants, though the plants closest to the earthquake's epicenter, Fukushima and Onagawa, were damaged by the earthquake and resulting tsunami. This report also discusses efforts by the United States and other countries to provide assistance to Japan to deal with the nuclear crisis.