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When will they every learn? The TEPCO nuclear disaster clearly shows that the power company spent a lot of time, money and effort to convince the people of the Tohoku Region that they were safe in the event of an earthquake and tsunami. Now Tohoku Electric Power Company's Higashidori is trying to say that fault lines under this plant that they want to start up again and also build anohter there are not active. No fault line is active until it moves as we all learned from first hand experience on March 11th and as the residents of Fukushima learned to their cost. Higashidori means 'East Road' If Electric Power Company's keep insisting and attempting to manipulate and deny the facts of the danger of earthquakes to nuclear reactors in Japan we may all be going west in more ways than one. Japan can be the first developed country in the world to produce all its energy needs without the use of nuclear power plants that sit on the fault lines like so many time bombs just waiting to go off.
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Power station sitting on active faults
Plans to restart Higashidori plant's reactor may be affected
Active faults under Tohoku Electric Power Co.'s Higashidori nuclear power complex in Aomori Prefecture are grounds for a reassessment of the seismic safety of the plant, according to a recent study.
The new report released Monday by researchers including Mitsuhisa Watanabe, professor at Toyo University, may affect a decision whether to restart the plant's reactor, which is currently shut down, as well as the earthquake-proof safety screening for other nuclear plants.
However, Tohoku Electric, which runs the single-reactor plant, and Tokyo Electric Power Co., which is building a new reactor in the same Higashidori complex, said the faults were shaped by the swelling of water-bearing strata and deny there are active faults that cause earthquakes under the plant site.
There are a number of faults beneath the complex and whether they are active is unclear, but several experts noted recently in the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency's safety-screening process that some may be active.
In the study report, the researchers say they found characteristics that typify the existence of active faults under the plant site in analyzing the surveys conducted by the two utilities for constructing the reactors there.
Takashi Nakata, a professor emeritus at Hiroshima University who took part in the analysis, criticized the utilities for denying active faults on the pretext of the swelling effects of strata.
Tokyo Counseling Services
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