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 […]
