Fault under Japan nuclear plant 'may be active'
- Published: 12 Nov 2012 at 02.47
- Online news: Asia
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.
Kansai Electric Power Co (KEPCO) engineers check readings at the company's Oi nuclear power plant in the town of Oi, Fukui prefecture in July 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 a nuclear advisory panel disagree.
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