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Construction
Construction started on Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant -
Fukushima Nuclear Disaster
11 March 2011 earthquake hits 130 kilometers off Japan's northeastern coast at 2:46 P.M -
Evacuation Begins
The Japanese government announces residential evacuation within 10 kilometers of the Fukushima Daiichi and Fukushima Daini nuclear power plants. -
explosion
A fire is reported at unit 4. Damage to the top levels of the unit 4 reactor building -
Conditions
Temperatures stabilize in units 5 and 6, which reach safe cold shutdown -
Aftershock
A earthquake aftershock occurs near the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant -
Radiation
Radiation is realsed into the air -
radiation continues
one tenth of the radioactivity has been relased -
economic
many people cancel flights,and hotel reservations -
cooling
Crews continue to cool the spent fuel pools at units 1 to 4 by injecting water directly into the pools with electrical pumps and concrete pumping trucks -
rebuilding period
may take up 30 years to rebulid -
money loss
155 mil is lost -
returning home
Three months after the government begins allowing citizens to return to the evacuation zone between 20 and 30 kilometers of the power plant, 54 percent of evacuees still have not returned home -
HELP
Tokyo gives $8.5 billion to cover compensation payments
