Smith-Llera, Danielle <br/><br/>
Fukushima disaster :  how a tsunami unleashed nuclear destruction  
by Danielle Smith-Llera. 
 - North Mankato, Minnesota  Capstone Press  2018 
 - 64 pages :  illustrations ;  27 cm.  Hardback book. 
 - CPB grades 4-8. Captured science history .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/> A massive tsunami caused by the strongest earthquake to ever hit Japan triggered the world's worst nuclear crisis since the 1986 Chernobyl accident 25 years earlier.  The monster waves that killed almost 20,000 people in japan crashed int the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant and caused nuclear reactor meltdowns that threatened the lives of thousands more.  The waves receded long ago, but the devastating effects of the March 2011 nuclear accident still linger. 
<br/><br/> Age 10-14. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780756557423 0756557429 9780756557461 0756557461 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2017037864 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Fukushima Nuclear Disaster, Japan, 2011--Juvenile literature.<br/>Nuclear accidents--Japan--Fukushima-ken<br/>Environmental disasters--Japan--Fukushima-ken<br/>Radioactivity
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<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>TK1365.J3  / S65 2018 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>j363.17990952117 Smi   23