• Let's get real: Central and regional government officials as well as those of utilities stage a teleconference Friday in Satsumasendai, Kagoshima Prefecture, during the first nuclear disaster drill held since the Fukushima No. 1 reactor meltdowns of March 2011. The exercise is intended to test the effectiveness of new disaster mitigation guidelines. | KYODO
    Let's get real: Central and regional government officials as well as those of utilities stage a teleconference Friday in Satsumasendai, Kagoshima Prefecture, during the first nuclear disaster drill held since the Fukushima No. 1 reactor meltdowns of March 2011. The exercise is intended to test the effectiveness of new disaster mitigation guidelines. | KYODO

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The government on Friday kicked off a two-day nuclear evacuation drill — its first since the 2011 Fukushima No. 1 power plant disaster — with the aim of making the exercise more realistic than its usual scripted rehearsals.

The drill is based on a scenario in which an earthquake causes an accident at one of the two reactors at the Sendai power plant in Kagoshima Prefecture, resulting in the release of radioactive substances and orders to evacuate.

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