What was the name of the Japanese nuclear plant that had a meltdown in 2011?

The Japanese nuclear plant that suffered a meltdown in 2011 was Fukushima Daiichi.

The Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant stood on Japan’s northeastern coast in Fukushima Prefecture and housed six boiling-water reactors. On March 11, 2011, the magnitude 9.0 Tōhoku earthquake automatically shut down the three operating reactors, but the tsunami that followed flooded emergency power systems and disabled cooling.

Without sufficient cooling, reactor cores in Units 1, 2, and 3 overheated and melted. Hydrogen explosions severely damaged several reactor buildings, and radioactive material escaped into the environment. The accident was classified Level 7, the highest rating on the International Nuclear Event Scale.

Fukushima Daiichi is often confused with Chernobyl or Three Mile Island, but those were separate nuclear accidents in Ukraine and the United States. “Daiichi” means “number one” in Japanese; a nearby facility is Fukushima Daini, or Fukushima Number Two.