Fukushima

[foo-koo-shee-muh, foo-koo-shee-mah]

noun

1. a city on N Honshu, in N Japan.

Fukushima

/ ˌfuːkuːˈʃiːmə /

noun

1. a city in Japan, in N Honshu: noted for production of silk; sight of a serious nuclear power station accident following an earthquake and tsunami in 2011. Pop: 290 064 (2011 est)

Example Sentences

"Tomiichi Murayama, the father of Japanese politics, passed away today at 11:28 am at a hospital in Oita City at the age of 101," Mizuho Fukushima, head of the Social Democratic Party, seen as the successor to Murayama's now-defunct Socialist Party, said on X.

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Antinuclear protesters began to flock to Tihange after Japan’s Fukushima nuclear disaster in 2011.

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During the Fukushima reactor cleanup in 2011, Packbots could maneuver through buildings that were filled with tsunami-driven rubble; a humanoid robot with two legs would have been stymied into uselessness.

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A French plan to develop the site was initially stymied by the slump in world uranium demand after the 2011 Fukushima nuclear accident in Japan.

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A product of nuclear detonations, the man-made isotope was released into the environment during nuclear weapon testing in the 1950s and ’60s, as well as nuclear events such as Chernobyl in 1986 and Fukushima in 2011.

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