Fault under Japan nuclear plant 'may be active'

Fault under Japan nuclear plant 'may be active'

Tokyo (AFP) Nov 11, 2012
Japan's only working nuclear power plant sits on what may be a seismic fault in the earth's crust, a geologist has warned, saying it is "very silly" to allow it to continue operating. Mitsuhisa Watanabe says the earth's plates could move under the Oi nuclear plant in western Japan, causing a catastrophe to rival last year's atomic disaster at Fukushima - although some of his colleagues on ahttp://www.nuclearpowerdaily.com/reports/Fault_under_Japan_nuclear_plant_may_be_active_999.html