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Editorial: No choice but to decommission Hamaoka nuclear plant

The Mainichi, 17 April 2012

An expert panel to the Cabinet Office released last month an estimate that a 21-meter-high tsunami could hit Chubu Electric Power Co.'s Hamaoka nuclear power station in Omaezaki, Shizuoka Prefecture, if a massive earthquake occurred in the Nankai Trough in the seabed off central to western Japan. Chubu Electric has been building breakwaters and other facilities to protect the nuclear plant from potential tsunami at a cost of 140 billion yen as it eyes reactivation of the plant that was suspended on the heels of the Fukushima nuclear disaster.



Source : http://mainichi.jp/english/english/perspectives/news/20120417p2a00m0na004000c.html

 

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