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Fukushima Daiichi Units 1–3 were heavily damaged during the March 2011 disaster and are complete losses. Unit 4 suffered less severe damage, but its reactor building was destroyed by a hydrogen explosion caused by a shared ventilation line with Unit 3. Units 5 and 6 remain intact, but will never operate again due to the overall contamination at the Fukushima site. Approximately 88,000 Japanese citizens were evacuated after the Fukushima accident. As of 2015, some of these residents have been allowed to return, but many sites remain too highly contaminated for human occupancy.
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Filburn, T., Bullard, S. (2016). Fukushima Daiichi Today. In: Three Mile Island, Chernobyl and Fukushima. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-34055-5_9
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