Japan 2011 Fukusshima

Economic Impacts

4000 roads, 78 bridges affected

Stock market crashed and had negative effect on companies like Sony

Estimated cost of £181 billion

Environmental Impacts

4.4 million households and businesses lost electric

11 nuclear power plants shut down

Salt water contaminated soil

Social Impacts

15,800 killed

66% being over 60 years old

333,000 in temp housing

1 million damaged buildings

Only 58% followed warnings, believed they were safe

Political Impacts

Anti nuclear EU countries used the Fukushima event to convey their arguments

Impact on power supplies

Short Term Responses

Army had to move quickly into the area. Able to clear roads and create access paths quickly

Doctors flown in from other parts of the country to help with the relief effort

Army helped build many temp houses

Long Term Responses

Reconstruction Design Council had a budget of 21 trillion Yen to rebuild homes

12m original tsunami barriers replaced with 18m barriers

Management

£70 million spent on lasers used to monitor slightest movement

1st September results in EQ drill practice

Billions of pounds spent making buildings EQ resistant

Evaluation

Warnings made several years before the event at the existing nuclear power plants, but ignored.

Seawater damaged one of the reactors making it unusable, and leached radioactivity into the water