Fukui Prefecture will jointly participate in disaster drills and emergency planning with neighboring Ishikawa and Nara prefectures in the event of a natural disaster or nuclear accident, in agreements reached June 11. Fukui is home to 13 of Japan’s 48 commercial reactors.
Fukui’s deals with Ishikawa and Nara include commitments to exchange doctors, emergency personnel and volunteers to send food and medical supplies and to help establish shelters as needed.Nara also agreed to start exchanging data with Fukui on its nuclear disaster response policies and to set up procedures to accept evacuees from Fukui in a nuclear contingency. |
