Residents of the city of Tomioka in Japan’s Fukushima prefecture have been allowed to return 12 years after the disaster at the Fukushima-1 nuclear power plant. It has been reported weather.
It was noted that the order to evacuate two neighborhoods of the city of Tomioka was canceled on April 1 at 09:00 local time.
The accident at the Fukushima-1 nuclear power plant is a radiation accident with a maximum level of 7 according to the International Nuclear Incident Scale (INES), which started on Friday, March 11, 2011, as a result of the strongest earthquake in history. Japan and the next tsunami. As a result of the flood, the energy of the station was completely cut off, the emergency cooling system malfunctioned. This leads to the melting of nuclear fuel in the reactors of power units 1-3, the explosion of the explosive mixture in power units 1, 3 and 4, etc. As a result, volatile radioactive elements: isotopes of iodine and cesium entered the environment.
It was previously reported that Japan endured for the summer, the release of water into the ocean from the Fukushima-1 nuclear power plant.