Tokyo Electric Power Co. said it evacuated all personnel from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear station early Wednesday after Japan issued a tsunami warning triggered by a magnitude-8.8 earthquake off Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula. The Japan Meteorological Agency initially forecast waves of up to one metre but later raised its estimate to three metres, covering much of the country’s northern and eastern coastline. No abnormalities were detected at the dismantlement site, Tepco added. The Fukushima complex was devastated by a 9.0-magnitude quake and tsunami in March 2011, leading to the world’s worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl. Decommissioning work has been under way for more than a decade and is expected to stretch into the 2050s.
Alerte au tsunami: les employés de la centrale nucléaire de Fukushima au Japon évacués https://t.co/NRlu8gNkqJ https://t.co/WvJ6w3zcxX
Tsunami concerns from Japan to Hawaii. Workers evacuated from Fukushima Nuclear power plant, the plant that was stuck during the 2011 quake tsunami Quake. https://t.co/bkZUYQOduN
Workers at stricken Fukushima nuclear plant evacuate after tsunami warning, says operator