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Construction started on Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant
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11 March 2011 earthquake hits 130 kilometers off Japan's northeastern coast at 2:46 P.M
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The Japanese government announces residential evacuation within 10 kilometers of the Fukushima Daiichi and Fukushima Daini nuclear power plants.
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A fire is reported at unit 4. Damage to the top levels of the unit 4 reactor building
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Temperatures stabilize in units 5 and 6, which reach safe cold shutdown
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A earthquake aftershock occurs near the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant
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Radiation is realsed into the air
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one tenth of the radioactivity has been relased
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many people cancel flights,and hotel reservations
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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
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may take up 30 years to rebulid
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155 mil is lost
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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
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Tokyo gives $8.5 billion to cover compensation payments
