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Japan Atomic may have to decommission plant as active fault found
TOKYO, Dec. 10, 2012 (Reuters) — Japan Atomic Power Co. may have to decommission one of its reactors after seismologists concluded the plant is sitting over an active faultline, potentially the first permanent shutdown of a nuclear unit in Japan since the Fukushima disaster last year.
“There is no way we can carry out safety assessments for a restart,” the chairman of Japan’s Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA), Shunichi Tanaka, said on Monday at an open meeting after being presented with an assessment there is an active fault under the No. 2 reactor at the Tsuruga nuclear plant.
The government in Japan, one of the world’s most seismically active countries, does not allow nuclear plants to be situated over active faultlines. An NRA panel of seismologists has been reviewing geological records and this month visited Tsuruga to watch the results of boring and other tests.
http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/bre8b90…n-nuclear/
2012-12-10 08:09:32
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