Fukushima on March 11, 2011 – a brief recap

The Fukushima disaster 2011 was the time that I learned that the world media can be controlled with only "the snap of a finger". But before we get into that part of the story we need some background information.

I’m sure most of us can recall the events of the Fukushima disaster, but anyway, here is a brief recapitulation. On March 11, 2011, at 14: 46 (local time), there was a very powerful earthquake (9.0 on the Richter scale) in the sea off northeastern Japan. The earthquake was followed by a huge tsunami that drowned and devastated large parts of the coastal area.  Shortly afterwards we are reached by news related to the nuclear power plant in Fukushima. We are told that some sort of crisis situation has arisen in some of its reactors. Plant workers seem to be unable to cool the reactors. Then we reached by shocking images of how both one, two, and eventually three of the reactors explode as a result of hydrogen gas leaks that ignite. We have probably all these images on imprinted in our memories forever. I've added a link to a page on Wikipedia that describes the course of events, both before and after, in fairly great detail for the interested (Fukushima wiki).

In addition there is large number of YouTube clips available from the dramatic explosions that day.