Japan’s Fukushima plant workers evacuate after tsunami warning

The workers in the treated nuclear plant in Japan were evacuated earlier on Wednesday after the issuance of tsunami warnings throughout the country.

The factory operator said that all of his 4000 -year -old workers were evacuated, adding that “distortions” had not been discovered.

It comes after a huge earthquake of 8.7 degrees from the Far East Coast of Russia, which led to warnings throughout the Pacific Ocean.

For many in Fukushima Governorate, the warning is likely to re -mention one of the worst nuclear disasters in the world.

In March 2011, Japan had a devastating earthquake 9.0 people and subsequent Tsunami, which continued to kill more than 18,000 people.

The factory tsunami was immersed, which disrupted its emergency generators and causes the temperature to rise – leading to a nuclear collapse.

Hundreds of tons of very dangerous materials are still in Fukushima – the challenges and disputes surrounding them are still very present, after more than 14 years.

On March 11, 2011 at 14:46 local time (05:46 GMT) an earthquake – known as the Great East Japan earthquake – struck east of the city of Sendai, 97 km (60 miles) north of the power plant.

The buildings of the reactor in Fukushima were damaged due to hydrogen explosions caused by the earthquake and tsunami. Tsunami took out the cooling systems into the reactors, three of which melted.

The factory also suffered from a number of chemical explosions that hurt the buildings badly, and for more things, radioactive materials began to leak into the atmosphere and the Pacific.

The government soon announced that the 30 km exclusion area was announced around the factory, which led to the evacuation of more than 150,000 people who were warned against returning due to radiation fears.

To date, large parts of the area are still restricted – with abandoned homes, empty neighborhoods and faded store facades to show them.

A total of 880 metric tons of dangerous materials – a mixture of dissolved nuclear fuel and reactor structures – is still inside Fukushima.

The removal of this debris is seen as the biggest challenge to safely turning off the factory.

Tens of thousands of workers will be needed over the next thirty to 40 years to remove nuclear waste and fuel bars safely and more than a million tons of radioactive water still on the site. The cleaning cost is also estimated at about 21.5 Ten ($ 145 billion; 3109 billion).

Earlier this week, Tepco said that the beginning of the complete removal of dissolved fuel wreckage will be pushed back until 2037 or later-saying that preparations for this will require at least 12 to 15 years.

The plan has already been delayed several times, and the latest delay is a major setback for a government plan to complete the suspension by 2051.

Tepco still confirms that it can achieve this, but some experts have called it a question.

Chunji Matsuka, professor of environmental economics and political studies at Wida University, said, “

Then there is a matter of water.

Since the disasters, TOKYO Electric Companey Company (TEPCO) (TEPCO) has pumping water to calm fuel bars of the reactors. This means every day the factory produces polluted water, stored in more than 1000 tanks, which is enough to fill more than 500 Olympic swimming pools.

But Japan needs the land occupied by the tanks to build new facilities to save the factory safely – and in 2023, it began to launch some treated sewage in the ocean.

The plan faced a huge amount of criticism and controversy, although the atomic organizers of the United Nations say it will have a “little” impact on people and the environment.

In the wake of the Fukushima disaster, Japan initially began to move away from nuclear energy – but the government slowly began to reflect this policy.

Earlier this year, Japan said it needs to rely on nuclear weapons to meet the increasing demand from the voltage sectors such as artificial intelligence and semi -conductors, with an energy plan that calls for “maximizing” nuclear energy.

This week, Kansai Electric Power said it would look at whether to build a new reactor – a project that was suspended in the aftermath of Fukushima.

But there was a local opposition to such plans – a tsunami alert is likely to increase on Wednesday.

The Japanese Meteorological Agency says that tsunami had reached parts of the country’s coast, including Fukushima.

The waves can reach 3 meters (9 feet) in such areas, and thousands have been informed of their safety.

Japan’s unstable location on the Fire track means that it suffers from about 1500 earthquakes annually. The threat waving on the earthquake exists at all.

It is also widely considered among the most intended countries in the world. Its citizens begin to participate in earthquake exercises from an early age of the elementary school and its buildings designed to be an earthquake resistance.

Nevertheless, many in Japan are still afraid of a “big one”-an earthquake once in the century, the worst scenarios expect to kill up to 300,000 people, which led to a tsunami of up to 30 meters (100 feet) along the country’s Pacific coast.

Experts say there is a 70 % chance to 80 % of 8 or 9 earthquake hits somewhere along the Nankai basin in Japan in the next thirty years.