Asia: No active faults found under 5 nuclear plants

Asia: No active faults found under 5 nuclear plants

from INPO - WANO News and Report by Lee Gliddon

The Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency has concluded five nuclear power plants have no active faults below their building sites.

NISA, the nuclear watchdog of the Economy, Trade and Industry Ministry, is looking into whether active faults exist below the sites of nuclear power plants nationwide. In a hearing of four experts held on Friday, the conclusion was reached that the five plants in question had no active faults below them, it said.

The five plants are: Kyushu Electric Power Co.'s Sendai plant in Kagoshima Prefecture and Genkai plant in Saga Prefecture; Shikoku Electric Power Co.'s Ikata plant in Ehime Prefecture; Japan Atomic Power Co.'s Tokai No. 2 plant in Ibaraki Prefecture; and Tohoku Electric Power Co.'s Onagawa plant in Miyagi Prefecture.http://inpowano.blogspot.com/2012/08/asia-no-active-faults-found-under-5.html