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Tsuruga nuclear power plant may be sitting on an active earthquake fault

Regulator does not ‘rule out’ crush zone at Tsuruga nuclear plant as
active fault, Daily Yomuiri, 4 Dec 12 TSURUGA, Fukui (Jiji Press)–A nuclear regulator has not ruled out the possibility a crush zone under the Tsuruga nuclear power plant is an active fault, the presence of which would prevent restarting one of the plant’s reactors.

At a news conference Sunday after a second day of on-site surveys at the plant, Kunihiko Shimazaki, acting chairman of the Nuclear Regulation Authority, said inspectors found stratum deformation above the crush zone D-1, which runs directly underneath the plant’s No. 2 reactor building. The results of the survey, conducted by Shimazaki and four other
experts commissioned by the authority, will be evaluated at a meeting next week.

If D-1 is judged to be an active fault, the regulatory group will prevent Japan Atomic Power Co., the plant’s operator, from restarting the No. 2 reactor….. http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/T121203003485.htm

December 4, 2012 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Japan, safety