Category: Earthquake, active fault

Lawsuit to Nullify the Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant’s Business License – Updates: Potential Activity of Continental Shelf Fringe Fault and Rokkasho Fault (2)

By Kamisawa Chihiro   Rokkasho fault as a branch fault of the continental shelf fringe fault In the previous article in Nuke Info Tokyo No. 233 (August 10, 2026), I explained that the continental...

Lawsuit to Nullify the Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant’s Business License – Updates (1): Potential Activity of Continental Shelf Fringe Fault and Rokkasho Fault

By Kamisawa Chihiro   Recent earthquake off the eastern coast of Aomori Prefecture (December 8, 2025) An earthquake with a magnitude of 7.5 took place off the eastern coast of Aomori Prefecture (the hypocenter...

CNIC Statement: Data Fabrication Found in Formulating the Basic Earthquake Ground Motion for Hamaoka Nuclear Power Station – We demand a thorough investigation and a comprehensive review of the past screening process.

January 8, 2026 On January 5, Chubu Electric Power announced that it had “suspicions that the selection of representative waves in the ground motion evaluation for the Hamaoka Nuclear Power Station had been conducted...