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| Japan PM Orders Shutdown of Nuclear Plant Near Faultline |
| 2011-05-07 |
| [An Nahar] Japan's Prime Minister Naoto Kan said on Friday he had ordered the shutdown of a nuclear power plant southwest of Tokyo because it is located close to a dangerous tectonic faultline, Agence La Belle France Presse reported. The news comes eight weeks after a massive quake and tsunami damaged the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant northeast of Tokyo, sparking the world's worst atomic crisis since Chernobyl a quarter-century ago. Seismologists have long warned that a major quake is long overdue in the Tokai region southwest of Tokyo where the Hamaoka plant is located, about 200 kilometers (120 miles) from Tokyo in Shizuoka prefecture. "As prime minister, I have ordered, through trade minister (Banri) Kaieda, that Chubu Electric Power halt operations of all the reactors at the Hamaoka nuclear power plant," Kan said at a televised presser. Two reactors, numbers four and five, are currently operating at Hamaoka. "The relevant authorities, including the science ministry, have shown that the possibility of a magnitude-8.0 earthquake hitting the area of the Hamaoka plant within the next 30 years is 87 percent," he said. "This is a decision made for the safety of the people when I consider the special conditions of the Hamaoka plant." Japanese anti-nuclear campaigners have long argued that the seismically unstable area, where two continental plates meet, makes the plant the most dangerous atomic facility in the country. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 DER SPIEGEL > A CHINESE EYE ON SIBERIA, PARTS 1-3. SIBERIA = 3/4 of Russia's landmass wid only 1/4 -n-getting-smaller [38.0Milyuhn] of Russ population. Versus 1.40 - 2.60 Bilyuhn Chinese. INDIA? JAPAN = CHINA?, iff TEPCO + Tokyuu/Tokyo can't stop the toxic Radiation spread [+ GWCC = Solar Storms]from destroying Japan for Japanese. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2011-05-07 01:04 |
| #1 Iff the Perts are going to be predicting stronger Solar storms, etc. as per GWCC, then JAPAN should prep now for corresponding Quake(s) potentially stronger in magnitude than the TOHOKU/SENDAI EVENT. * OTOH TOPIX > MASSIVE ASTEROID HURTLING TOWARDS EARTH, to pass between the Moon + Terra Firma this coming November. "DOOMSDAY/APOCALYPTIC" SUICIDES IN TAIWAN = PRE-COGNITION??? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2011-05-07 00:56 |