Tsunami wave height of 1 meter reached the nuclear power plant “Fukushima-1”
Damage is not fixed.
TOKYO, November 22. /Offset. TASS Alex Sarachev/. Tsunami wave height of one meter after a powerful earthquake of 7.4 magnitude has reached emergency Japanese nuclear power plant “Fukushima-1”. This was announced by operator Tokyo Electric Power.
According to her, the damage is not fixed.
Exactly the same height the wave reached the neighbouring station “Fukushima-2”. Information on the occurrence there of emergency situations were reported.
Today at 05:59 local time (23:59 GMT Monday) off the North-East of Fukushima Prefecture earthquake of a 7.4 magnitude. According to the National meteorological management of Japan, the epicenter of the disaster was to the East of this Prefecture, and the focus lies at a depth of 25 km under the ocean floor. The threat of a tsunami, the wave height can reach 3 meters.
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After the earthquake in the third reactor NPP “Fukushima-2” stopped cooling pool of spent nuclear fuel in the building of the third reactor. An hour later her work was restored, the radiation leakage has not occurred, the temperature of the fuel rods remained in the normal range.
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