{"id":517,"date":"2010-05-01T10:35:27","date_gmt":"2010-05-01T17:35:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/a4nr.org\/?p=517"},"modified":"2010-05-01T10:52:41","modified_gmt":"2010-05-01T17:52:41","slug":"nuclear-power-plants-earthquakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/a4nr.org\/?p=517","title":{"rendered":"Nuclear Power Plants &#038; Earthquakes &#8211;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"font-family: Arial-BoldMS; color: #333333; font-size: xx-small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial-BoldMS; color: #333333; font-size: xx-small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial-BoldMS; color: #333333; font-size: xx-small;\">Japanese, and most other, nuclear plants are designed to withstand earthquakes, and in the event of major earth movement, to shut down safely.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h2>\n<h2><span style=\"font-family: Arial-BoldMS; color: #333333; font-size: xx-small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial-BoldMS; color: #333333; font-size: xx-small;\"><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial-BoldMS; color: #333333; font-size: xx-small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial-BoldMS; color: #333333; font-size: xx-small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial-BoldMS; color: #333333; font-size: xx-small;\">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 due to ground acceleration exceeding<br \/>\ntheir trip settings.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<h2>\u00a0\u00a0<\/h2>\n<\/h2>\n<h2>In 1999, three nuclear reactors shut down automatically during the devastating Taiwan earthquake, and were restarted two days later.<\/h2>\n<h2><span style=\"font-family: Arial-BoldMS; color: #333333; font-size: xx-small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial-BoldMS; color: #333333; font-size: xx-small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial-BoldMS; color: #333333; font-size: xx-small;\">To access this article in PDF form: <a href=\"http:\/\/a4nr.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Nuclear-Power-Plants+Japan-quakes-WNA-2009.pdf\">Nuclear Power Plants and Japan quakes &#8211; WNA 2009<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kariwa-kashiwazaki-kk-japan-reactor-quake"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/a4nr.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/a4nr.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/a4nr.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/a4nr.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/a4nr.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=517"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/a4nr.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":520,"href":"https:\/\/a4nr.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517\/revisions\/520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/a4nr.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/a4nr.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/a4nr.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}