PhotoTOKYO — A powerful earthquake triggered a tsunami off the coast of Japan early Tuesday, near where three nuclear reactors melted down at a plant in Fukushima after a quake and tsunami in 2011. At the Fukushima nuclear plant, the tsunami waves rose to about three feet. Since the 2011 disaster, Tepco has been cleaning up and has started the decommissioning process. Tepco appeared to have learned some lessons from the 2011 disaster, when it failed to give timely updates. At the peak of the 2011 nuclear disaster, 160,000 people fled or were evacuated from around the plant.

Source: New York Times November 21, 2016 22:11 UTC