Nuclear facilities should not jeopardise their safety in case of earthquakes or other hostile external events . Therefore , their seismic design is based on criteria far more stringent than those applying to non-nuclear facilities . The Fukushima I nuclear accidents and damage to other nuclear facilities that followed the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami have , however , drawn attention to ongoing concerns over Japanese nuclear seismic design standards and caused other many governments to re-evaluate their nuclear programs . Doubt has also been expressed over the seismic evaluation and design of certain other plants , including the Fessenheim Nuclear Power Plant in France
2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami
2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami
Earthquake engineering