Aerial view of water storage tanks at the Fukushima nuclear power plant, JapanTOKYO, Mar 16 A fire alarm went off in one of the buildings of the Fukushima-1 nuclear power plant after a powerful earthquake, the country's nuclear regulator said in a statement. =»/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/0b2804dcb439b32dba90043b65c3941d.jpg» />There was another earthquake in the northeast of Japan. The pumps at the first and third reactors, which pump water to cool spent nuclear fuel pools, also stopped at the station. Experts are looking into the matter. It is noted that there is a margin of time. There are no changes in the readings of radiation monitoring devices at the station. The time reserve is more than a week, since the temperature in the pools without cooling will rise to 65 degrees no earlier than in seven days. An earthquake of magnitude 7.3 occurred in northeast Japan in the Pacific Ocean in area of Fukushima Prefecture at 23:36 local time (17:36 Moscow time). A tsunami threat has been declared. The source lay at a depth of 60 kilometers. Later at 00:52 there was a second earthquake with a magnitude of 5.6. There is no information about the victims and destruction yet. At the same time, according to Japanese media, there are numerous reports of casualties.
