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Fukushima, or the Black Swan of Nuclear Energy
Juan José Gómez Cadenassubject
Nuclear reactor coreNuclear engineeringEnvironmental scienceBoiling water reactorMagnitude (mathematics)JouleBlack swan theorySurface energyEnergy (signal processing)Power (physics)description
By its own merits, the great earthquake that hit Japan on 11 March 2011 would have qualified as one of the worse disasters of recent times. With a magnitude of 9.0 MW, it was the most powerful known earthquake ever to have hit Japan, and one of the most powerful in history. It released a surface energy 2 × 1017 Joule. Enough, if harnessed, to power a city the size of Los Angeles for an entire year.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012-01-01 |