On the final day of the 12th, the national and prefectural nuclear disaster prevention drills assuming a serious accident at the Tohoku Electric Power Onagawa Nuclear Power Plant (Onagawa Town, Ishinomaki City) will evacuate residents of the emergency protective measures area (UPZ) within the 5 to 30 km area of the nuclear power plant. Carried out. The UPZ7 municipalities and the host municipalities participated and confirmed the flow of pollution inspections for evacuees and the establishment of evacuation shelters.
UPZ is 7 cities and towns of Onagawa, Ishinomaki, Higashimatsushima, Tome, Wakuya, Misato, and Minamisanriku. Although he had instructed to evacuate indoors, he was trained to evacuate outside the 30km area on the assumption that the air radiation dose rate would rise above the standard.
Three cities and towns in the Ishinomaki region and Tome city practiced moving to evacuation shelters. Residents’ staff depart from each meeting place by bus or public car. At the evacuation exit inspection site set up in the area outside the 30km area, the adhesion of radioactive substances to vehicles and clothes was inspected.
At the evacuation center, we confirmed measures to prevent infection with the new coronavirus and cooperation with the host municipality. We also confirmed the distribution of stable iodine tablets and the operation of traffic lights to allow evacuation vehicles to pass smoothly.
After the training, Mr. Sei Matsushita, Deputy Director General of the Cabinet Office, who served as the secretary general of the local countermeasures headquarters, supervised the training. He said, “The planned training was completed without delay. We will summarize the results of the training by questionnaires to the participants. We would like to clarify the improvement items and raise the evaluation of the nuclear disaster prevention system.”
This is the first time that a national nuclear disaster prevention drill has been held at the Onagawa nuclear power plant. About 2,200 people from 128 institutions participated in the three days from the 10th. Residents’ participation was canceled due to the spread of the new corona infection.
In the evacuation drill from UPZ in Ishinomaki City, Governor Yoshihiro Murai, Mayor Masami Saito, and a total of about 40 residents’ staff members headed for the evacuation center in Osaki City with three buses and 33 passenger cars during the trip.
Prefectural officials measured the radiation dose of the vehicle at the evacuation exit inspection site set up at Wakuya Stadium in Wakuya Town. Evacuees from vehicles with high doses also inspect the surface of their clothes. Evacuees with possible internal exposure were transported by ambulance to the National Hospital Organization Sendai Medical Center in Sendai City.
I arrived at Furukawa Health and Welfare Plaza in Osaki City, which is an evacuation center, about 25 minutes later than planned. After accepting evacuees, we also checked the condition of the tents and cardboard beds that were deployed.
Governor Murai, who experienced evacuation, recalled, “The roads and reception were more crowded than I had imagined, and it took time.” We must be able to do it. “
In Higashimatsushima City, 32 staff members boarded two buses and 15 passenger cars, and trained to evacuate from the Ono district to Natori City and from the Nobiru district to Watari Town. The required time was verified on a total of three routes, the Sanriku Coastal Road and the general road, respectively.
During the evacuation shelter, temperature measurement and disinfection are carried out as an infection control measure. I checked the one-touch partition and the cardboard bed, and brought in the water and emergency food I brought.
Although the residents’ participation in the training was postponed, Mr. Masanori Endo (34) of the Watari Town General Affairs Division said, “We can reflect what we noticed from the staff’s point of view and the difficulty of the residents to speak out in future evacuation plans.” Said.
Kazuo Okuda, 51, chief of the Higashi Matsushima City Disaster Prevention Division, said, “We will collect the opinions of the participating staff and reflect them in the plan. We would like the residents to check the site in the training after the corona has converged.”
