The Fukushima Daiichi accident and the IAEA's Incident and Emergency Centre
Channel: IAEAvideo
Date: 2021-11-08

The IAEA's Incident and Emergency Centre received information from the International Seismic Safety Centre at approximately 08:15 CET the morning of 11 March 2011 concerning an earthquake of magnitude 9.0 near the east coast of Honshu, Japan. What would follow was a nuclear accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant (herein referred to as the accident). The Agency would send an offer of Good Offices to Japan and closely monitor the situation. Ultimately, the accident received a Level 7 on the International Nuclear and Radiological Event Scale and resulted in a series of safety improvements globally.

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