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UPSC 2008: In the year 2007, an earthquake led to massive radioactive water leakage in the largest nuclear plant in the world. In which country did it occur?
(a)Germany
(b)Canada
(c)Japan
(d)USA
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The 6.6-magnitude Chūetsu-oki earthquake on 16 July 2007 struck Niigata Prefecture, Japan, damaging the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant—the world’s largest—and causing leakage of radioactive cooling-pool water; therefore the incident occurred in Japan and not in Germany, Canada or the USA. ([biljoissac.wordpress.com](https://biljoissac.wordpress.com/2008/11/20/prelims-2008-answers/))
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