Fukui Prefecture will jointly participate in disaster drills and emergency planning with neighboring Ishikawa and Nara prefectures in the event of a natural disaster or nuclear accident, in agreements reached Wednesday.
Fukui is home to 13 of Japan's 48 commercial reactors.
But there has been little progress on similar agreements with neighboring Kyoto and Shiga prefectures, which analysts attribute to lack of cooperation among bureaucrats.
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