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Japan -Dangerous fault alleged 25 years ago at Shika nuclear plant site

TOKYO, Dec. 7, Kyodo

 

Experts had said there was a dangerous fault at the planned site of the Shika nuclear plant in Ishikawa Prefecture in 1987, well before a similar suspicion arose earlier this year, according to governmentdocuments given Friday.

The previous claim had been left unaddressed until the government stated in July that a fault beneath the first reactor of the two-reactor nuclear plant was active and dangerous, triggering a detailed survey by the plant’s operator, Hokuriku Electric Power Co.

In Japan, nuclear reactors are not allowed to be built on any site that includes an active fault.

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http://english.kyodonews.jp/news/2012/12/198000.html

Picture: Active fault may lie under Shika N-plant. The  YomiuriShimbun    -yomiuri.co.jp

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