Active fault lies beneath nuclear facility: professor

Sunday 25th May, 04:05 PM JST

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nipbaka at 05:59 PM JST - 25th May

I was told by Kajima that all nuclear sites were built on solid rock foundations. Obviously not! And are the workers at power plants STILL mixing radioactive cocktails in stainless steel buckets??? Low tech = low intelligence a great danger to us all!
smithinjapan at 07:26 PM JST - 25th May

Sadly, it's going to take the magnitude 8 quake the professor speaks of to make these idiots realize it's not safe to build nuclear plants on fault lines (or build ANYTHING on fault lines, for that matter, but especially power plants)
romulus3 at 08:19 PM JST - 25th May

gee, one may struggle to find earthquake proof land here that is operable in terms of business anyway. cant really blame them.

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keshii at 09:18 PM JST - 25th May

romulus, I sure do see your point. Japan is a small island country made by volcanic activity. Perhaps Japan simply isn't a safe place for nuclear plants to be built.
vig at 07:08 AM JST - 26th May

play with nuclear fire....get nuked
USNinJapan2 at 08:23 AM JST - 26th May

How about the Japanese borrow a page from the US Navy's playbook and just build all their nuclear facilities on ship-like floating platforms, kind of like how casinos in the US have to be built over water (ships or permanent barges) if they're not in Nevada, Atlantic City, or run by Native American tribes. You're never too far from the ocean wherever you are in Japan so the nuclear supply shouldn't ever be too far from the electrical demand either. Sure would be safer than how/where they're built now...
netrek at 10:51 AM JST - 26th May

And Gojira will be born in the aftermath ^_^
vig at 09:51 AM JST - 28th May

and even if you do build a "safe"(ha ha)nuclear reactor, what do you do with the nuclear waste for the next 4.5 billion years?...so far no one has solved that. the american practice of using it on the rest of the world in depleted uranium weapons is a deliberate crime against humanity & sustainability... a nuclear mishap, tho accidental,could mean long term (forever) devastation