2011 CE
Fukushima Daiichi and safety review
Energy · Technology · Infrastructure
The March 2011 earthquake and tsunami caused a severe accident at Fukushima Daiichi and tested cooling, regulatory, and emergency-response systems. Its lessons led to safety reviews and differing energy decisions by country; they do not by themselves determine the viability of all nuclear energy.
Precision, calendar, and review
- Start
- year · no uncertainty qualifier in this record
- Calendar and convention
- Historical-era years; the source calendar is not identified. No conversion of days is assumed.
- Year zero
- The scale goes from 1 BCE to 1 CE without year zero. Changing era names changes labels only.
- Documentary review
- Date not recorded
Reading the date: point event.
Sources
- www-pub.iaea.org (opens in a new tab)
Source provenance and scope
- Publication date
- Pending verification
- Bibliographic date checked
- 2026-09-23
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