Kawauchi, Fukushima: An evacuation drill took place in the Fukushima Prefecture village of Kawauchi on November 22, based on the scenario of a serious accident occurring at Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant. About 260 residents and roughly 1,000 officials from local governments and the Nuclear Regulation Authority took part in the drill, which was organized by the prefectural and Kawauchi municipal governments. \r\nEmergency procedures were carried out based on a mock scenario in which the plant’s No. 3 reactor had lost its fuel pool cooling functions in the aftermath of an earthquake measuring upper 6 on the Japanese seismic intensity scale of 7. |
