Approximately because some evacuation centers where local residents evacuated when there was a serious accident at the Tokai No. 2 Nuclear Power Plant in Tokai Village, Ibaraki Prefecture, included spaces that could not be accommodated when calculating the capacity. It turned out that there was not enough evacuation space for 6900 people.

Assuming an accident at the Tokai No. 2 nuclear power plant, Ibaraki Prefecture surveyed the number of evacuation shelters in the municipalities inside and outside the prefecture in 2013, and based on this, the municipalities around the nuclear power plant. We are allocating evacuation destinations to.



However, according to the prefecture, when calculating the capacity of evacuation shelters, it was found that some local governments included uninhabitable spaces such as toilets and entrances, and as a result of re-investigation, at present,


▽ evacuation destinations in Hitachinaka City There are a total of 4694 people in the three cities of Ushiku, Kasumigaura, and Omitama,


and there is a shortage of evacuation space for 2195 people in Sakuragawa, the evacuation destination of Naka City.



In response to this, Hitachinaka City and Naka City will take measures such as having the evacuation destination city secure an additional evacuation center or coordinating the number of people accepted with other local governments that have an evacuation agreement. It means that it is.



The Ibaraki Prefecture Nuclear Safety Measures Division says, "In order to formulate an effective wide-area evacuation plan, we would like to work with related cities to secure evacuation destinations in the future."