Aerial view of water storage tanks at the Fukushima nuclear power plant, Japan. File photoMOSCOW, March 17 — RIA Novosti. The operation of the cooling system for spent nuclear fuel at the Fukushima-2 nuclear power plant has been restored after a strong earthquake in northeast Japan, the Kyodo news agency reports .Earlier, NHK reported that at the first power unit of the Fukushima-2 nuclear power plant, a pump supplying water for cooling stopped in the pool with spent nuclear fuel.
" #34; restored", the agency said.
An earthquake of magnitude 7.3 occurred on Wednesday in the northeast of Japan in the Pacific Ocean near Fukushima Prefecture at 23.36 local time (17.36 Moscow time). There was a tsunami threat. The outbreak lay at a depth of 60 kilometers. The tremors were felt in the prefectures of the northeast and north of Japan. Strong undulating shocks were felt in Tokyo. There is no information about the destruction yet, according to media reports, one person died, about 70 were injured.