Earthquake in area nuclear facility in Japan

Canada.com 17 Feb 09 A strong earthquake measuring 6.8 on the Richter scale shook northern Japan early Thursday………………..

Japan endures some 20 per cent of the world’s powerful earthquakes.

The area of the earthquake lies near Rokkasho, the hub of Japan’s nuclear power industry and site of a controversial plant that reprocesses spent fuel.

Officials said they detected no problems in the nuclear power plants, with some shut down manually.

An earthquake last year caused a small leak in the world’s largest nuclear power plant in Niigata prefecture northwest of Tokyo………………………

http://www.canada.com/reginaleaderpost/story.html?id=9aae5ae9-fb31-4bb4-a19a-1912849b8ddc

February 17, 2009 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Japan, safety