The tsunami had disabled the emergency generators which would have provided power to control and operate the pumps necessary to cool the reactors. 

The insufficient cooling had led to three nuclear meltdowns, hydrogen-air explosions and the release of radioactive material in Units 1, 2, and 3 from March 12 to March 15 and the loss of cooling had caused the pool for storing spent fuel from Reactor 4 to overheat on March 15 due to the decay heat from the fuel rods. 

What effects were documented as a result of your event? 

It had displaced 50,000 households after the radioactive material leaked into the air, soil and sea. 

The World Health Organization had released a report that estimates an increase in risk for specific cancers for certain subsets of the population inside the Fukushima Prefecture.

The World Health Organization had predicted that the populations living in the most affected areas that there is a 70% higher risk of developing thyroid cancer for girls as infants, the risk has risen from a lifetime risk of 0.75% to 1.25% chance, there is a 7% higher risk of leukemia in males exposed as infants, a 6% higher risk of breast cancer in females exposed as infants and a 4% higher risk of overall for females to develop solid cancers for females.

The World Health Organizations had determined that group most at risk were infants that were in the most affected area would experience and absolute increase in the risk of all types of cancer during their lifetime of approximately 1% due to the accident.

Anything else you found interesting while researching? 

There hasn’t been no fatalities linked to the short term overexposure to radiation reported cause of the Fukushima accident, while approximately 18,500 people had died due to the earthquake and tsunami. 

The rates of psychological distress among the evacuated people had rose fivefold compared to the Japanese average due to the experience of the disaster and evacuation. 

A screening program in 2012 had found that more than about a third (36%) of children in the Fukushima Prefecture had abnormal growths in their thyroid glands. 

But as of August 2013 there had been more than 40 children were newly diagnosed with thyroid cancer and other cancers in the Fukushima prefecture as a whole.

Climate - Under the Koppen climate classification shows that the majority of Fukushima has a humid subtropical climate but however the mountains that line the western border of the city has a humid continental climate. There is often a big temperature and weather difference between central and the mountainous edge of the city. Hottest month tends to be the August with an average high of 30.4 Celsius in the central Fukushima at an elevation of 67 metres while the Tsuchiyu Pass on the western edge of the city at an elevation of 1,220 metres with an average high of 21.7 celsius. The coldest months tend to be in January with an average low of -1.8 celsius in central Fukushima and -9.0 on Tsuchiyu Pass. 

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