The Fukushima natural and manmade disaster (including quake/tsunami), in which 23,000 people died, was one of the most consequential events I covered. It began 15 years ago today. A quake triggered a tsunami, which destroyed a nuclear power plant. Three reactors melted down. The radioactive cleanup could last a century and cost $1 trillion.
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23,000 people died in the great Tōhoku Earthquake and Tsunami.
The Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster did not immediately killed so many people (directly only about two, and not from radiation).
