Fukushima

American  

[foo-koo-shee-muh, foo-koo-shee-mah] / ˌfu kuˈʃi mə, ˈfu kʊˈʃi mɑ /

noun

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

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Fukushima British  

/ 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)

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Example Sentences

A problem with a monitoring alarm in January forced the suspension of its first restart since the 2011 Fukushima disaster.

From Barron's

The facility had been offline since Japan pulled the plug on nuclear power after a colossal earthquake and tsunami sent three reactors at the Fukushima atomic plant into meltdown.

From Barron's

Japan will switch the world's largest nuclear power plant back on next week, after a glitch with an alarm forced the suspension of its first restart since the 2011 Fukushima disaster.

From Barron's

The facility had been offline since Japan pulled the plug on nuclear power after a colossal earthquake and tsunami sent three reactors at the Fukushima atomic plant into meltdown in 2011.

From Barron's

The last true joint U.S.-Japan yen intervention was in 2011 after the Fukushima earthquake and nuclear disaster.

From The Wall Street Journal