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18 Metre walls to protect Hamaoka nuclear plant from tsunamis

Hamaoka to get seawalls of 18 meters, Japan Times, July 22, 2011, ¥100 billion plan to make nuclear plant safe from huge tsunami. NAGOYA — Chubu Electric Power Co. said Friday it will build seawalls as high as 18 meters at its Hamaoka nuclear plant to protect the facility from tsunami. 

Chubu Electric will spend ¥100 billion in total to build the seawalls, the facility’s first, and take other measures against tsunami at the power plant in Omaezaki, Shizuoka Prefecture, which was taken out of operation in May at the request of the government. Construction of the seawalls will begin next month……..

Prime Minister Naoto Kan in May ordered that the utility shut down the Hamaoka plant and take additional measures to protect it from massive tsunami, citing estimates that there is a high possibility of the Tokai region, including Shizuoka, being hit by a huge quake in the next 30 years.

The Hamaoka nuclear power station is located in the epicenter of an area where a projected magnitude 8 temblor, termed the Tokai earthquake, is widely expected to hit. The Tokai earthquake is the sole temblor against which authorities have compiled top-level measures on the assumption that they will be able to predict it.

The Hamaoka plant has five reactors…

July 22, 2011 - Posted by | Japan, safety

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