Japan conducts evacuation drill for multiple nuclear accidents

The government started a two-day evacuation drill on Saturday in the central Japan prefecture of Fukui, which is home to the highest concentration of nuclear plants in the country.Some 21,600 people will take part in the drill, including residents within 30 kilometers of two neighboring nuclear plants which sit only 14 km apart.The drill is aimed at simultaneously testing already established evacuation plans for residents around Kansai Electric Power Co.'s Oi and Takahama plants under the scenario that both facilities lose power to cool reactors due to a powerful quake.It is the largest dri…READ FULL ARTICLE