Nuclear Power Plants & Earthquakes –

Japanese, and most other, nuclear plants are designed to withstand earthquakes, and in the event of major earth movement, to shut down safely. In 1995, the closest nuclear power plants, some 110 km north of Kobe, were unaffected by the severe Kobe-Osaka earthquake, but in 2004, 2005, 2007 and 2009 Japanese reactors shut down automatically […]

TEPCO 2009 Seismic update

For the document in PDF form: TEPCO 2009 Seismic update

TEPCO 2009 losses report

Initiatives Derived from the Niigata-Chuetsu-Oki Earthquake – In July 2007, TEPCO’s Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Station suffered damage in the Niigata-Chuetsu-Oki Earthquake, and all its units were shut down.  This suspension of operations had serious ramifications on TEPCO’s supply of electricity, as well as on the financial balance and environmental performance of it business. For the […]

Kashiwazaki-Kariwa unit 6 – When will it resume commercial operation?

The Denki Shimbun (Electric Daily News) – December 1, 2009 TOKYO, JAPAN –When unit 6 of Tokyo Electric Power’s Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power station will resume commercial operation has attracted the attention of concerned parties. For the full article in PDF form: KK restart question Denki Shimbun – 12/1/2009        

Chetsu Quake Map 1

THE BULLETIN OF THE ATOMIC SCIENTIST – Nuclear safety lessons from Japan’s summer earthquake

THE BULLETIN OF THE ATOMIC SCIENTIST Nuclear safety lessons from Japan’s summer earthquake BY ASHWIN KUMAR AND M. V. RAMANA | 4 DECEMBER 2007 On July 16, 2007, an earthquake with a magnitude of somewhere between 6.6 and 6.8 struck Japan. Its epicenter was about 16 kilometers north of the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant (KKNPP), […]

TEPCO: Active fault found in seabed off nuclear plant (Dec. 7, 2007)

The Yomiuri Shimbun Tokyo Electric Power Co. on Wednesday said it found a 23-kilometer-long active fault in the Sea of Japan off the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant, which was damaged in the Niigata Prefecture Chuetsu Offshore Earthquake in July. According to TEPCO, the fault was found in the seabed about 18.5 kilometers from the shore […]