The tsunami that came roaring in five years ago today to smash Japan’s northeast coast did far more damage than the magnitude 9 earthquake that set it in motion. The wall of water knocked out the power and backup systems of Tokyo Electric Power Company’s (TEPCO) Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant and triggered the second worst nuclear accident in history—the worst being Chernobyl, the third, Three Mile Island.

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