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The village of Tōkai's location (approximately seventy miles from Tokyo) and available land space made it ideal for nuclear power production, so a series of experimental nuclear reactors and then the Tōkai Nuclear Power Plant – the country's first commercial nuclear power station – were built here. Nuclear power was an important energy alternative for natural-resource-poor Japan to limit dependence on imported energy, providing approximately 30% of Japan’s electricity up until the Fukushima nuclear disaster of 2011, after which nuclear electricity production fell into sharp decline. Tokai Nuclear Plant, Japan's first nuclear power station. These accidents had great impacts on the technicians and resulted in most of them going to the hospital with serious injuries. The victims ranged from workers who were working on the tank that had the accident to construction workers working on a site near by. After these two accidents a series of lawsuits were filed and new safety measures were put into effect. These accidents were due to inadequate regulatory oversight, lack of appropriate safety culture and inadequate worker training and qualification. The incident spanned approximately 20 hours and resulted in radiation exposure for 667 people and the death of two workers. (JCO) on 30 September 1999 due to improper handling of liquid uranium fuel. The second was a criticality accident at a separate fuel reprocessing facility belonging to Japan Nuclear Fuel Conversion Co. Over twenty people were exposed to radiation. The first accident occurred on 11 March 1997, producing an explosion after an experimental batch of solidified nuclear waste caught fire at the Power Reactor and Nuclear Fuel Development Corporation (PNC) radioactive waste bituminisation facility. There have been two noteworthy nuclear accidents at the Tōkai nuclear campus, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan. ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)
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