The Fukushima Dai’ichi Nuclear Power was one of 54 nuclear power plants operating throughout Japan in March of 2011. The plant contained 6 separate reactors designed by General Electric and maintained by the Tokyo Electric Power Company. Fukushima Dai’ichi lies about 140 miles northeast of Tokyo, Japan directly on the Pacific Ocean. At 1446 hrs (local JST) on Friday March 11, 2011, a Magnitude 9.0 earthquake struck 43 miles east of Sendai, Japan, (or about 65 miles northeast of Fukushima Dai’ichi) centered in the Pacific Ocean with a depth of about 19 miles. Names the Great East Japan Earthquake, it was the most powerful recorded earthquake ever to strike Japan. The reactors handled he seismic activity very well, but it was the impending
