The Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station, situated in Japan’s Fukushima Prefecture, made it to one of the world’s top 25 largest nuclear power stations until it was hit by a catastrophic nuclear disaster that unfolded in 2011. Commissioned in 1971, running approximately 461 miles north of Tokyo along the Pacific Coast, the plant housed six boiling water reactors (BWRs), generating a total of 4.7 gigawatts of electricity. However, the name “Fukushima” today is not globally recognized for its capacity but rather for the nuclear disaster that has become synonymous with it.

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