THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
March 22, 2024 at 07:00 JST
National Road No. 249, 10 kilometers north of Hokuriku Electric Power Co.’s Shika nuclear power plant, remains impassable on Jan. 5 due to a large cave-in on one side of the road in Shika, Ishikawa Prefecture. (Ryo Sasaki)
The powerful earthquake that struck the Noto Peninsula without warning on New Year’s Day shed light on the difficulty of evacuating residents around a nuclear power plant to safety. [Read More]
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