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Japan’s most dangerous nuclear power plant

 Hamaoka, Japan’s Most Infamous Nuclear Plant? WSJ May 6, 2011, The Hamaoka nuclear power plant may not be as well known around the world as Fukushima Daichi, crippled by the March 11 disasters. But the complex that Prime Minister Naoto Kan ordered closed down Friday is extremely well known in Japan. In fact, it’s infamous.

The plant, operated by Chubu Electric Power Co., is sited on Japan’s east coast, about 200 kilometers southwest of Tokyo, by Omaezaki city in Shizuoka prefecture. Omaezaki is known for its fishing and its green tea. And also for being sited pretty much, some say, on the fault line in the area that would be hit by the next, historically overdue “Tokai earthquake” – a long-feared “Big One” that could wreak havoc in the Kanto region that includes the capital…..Hamaoka, Japan’s Most Infamous Nuclear Plant? – Japan Real Time – WSJ

May 8, 2011 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Japan, safety