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-Nuclear Regulation Authority’s responsibility is grave- Photo Urazoko Fault trench (by Masako Sawai, April 2008) Figure 1. Locations of Unit 1 and Unit 2 reactor buildings and Urazoko Fault (partially-revised NRA map) On May...
– The First Post-3/11 Niigata Prefecture Earthquake and Ground Condition Subcommittee – Introduction In the 1970s the Japanese government produced “The Earthquake Safety Regulatory Guide: Reviewing the Seismic Design of Nuclear Power Reactor Facilities”...
On the afternoon of August 28, 300 people from around Japan gathered at a meeting in Kashiwazaki City hosted by the “Citizens’ Group to Protect Life and Home Town from Nuclear Power Plants”. Three...
On May 11 Niigata Prefecture’s technical committee on safety control of nuclear power plants endorsed the restart of the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa (KK) Unit 1 (BWR, 1100MW). KK-1 was shaken most (680 Gal*) and incurred the...
Chubu Electric Power Company’s Hamaoka Nuclear Power Station was struck by a magnitude 6.5 earthquake at 5:07am on August 11. The epicenter was 37 kilometers from the Hamaoka plant in Suruga Bay, in Shizuoka...
July 16 was the second anniversary of the Chuetsu-oki Earthquake. The seismic force that struck Tokyo Electric Power Company’s (TEPCO) Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Station (KK) was unprecedented in the history of nuclear power. Start-up...
Why Kashiwazaki-Kariwa? Prior to establishment of the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant there were oil fields in the region. Studies related to these oil fields showed that the ground was unstable, so informed locals knew...
July 16 was the first anniversary of the Chuetsu-Oki Earthquake. What caused the earthquake? What damage was done to the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant (KK)? Discussion of these questions is continuing within the central...
Possible increase of spent fuel to be reprocessed during active tests Step 3 of the active tests currently being carried out at the Rokkasho reprocessing plant were completed in April (see NIT 118). On...
Step 3 of “active tests” at the Rokkasho reprocessing plant were completed on April 26th. Although numerous problems have arisen, Japan Nuclear Fuel Ltd (JNFL) has not officially changed the November 2007 scheduled date...