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Nuclear agency, TEPCO knew tsunami could trigger power loss in 2006
11:16 16.05.2012
text: Kazinform views: [444] Related articlesOnly 1 out of 54 nuclear reactors left operating in Japan High-level cesium logged in soil near Fukushima power plant: gov't survey Iran plans to build 3 more reactors at Bushehr nuclear site Fukushima events do not seriously affect global nuclear plans - Kazatomprom The government's nuclear safety agency and Tokyo Electric Power Co. as of 2006 had acknowledged the risk of a tsunami-triggered power loss at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, agency officials said Tuesday.
According to the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency officials, the awareness was shared at a study session that was launched in response to the 2004 Sumatra quake and tsunami in Indonesia and joined by several utilities, Kyodo reports. A paper compiled in August 2006 suggested that participants recognized that ''there is a possibility that power equipment could lose functions if a 14-meter-high tsunami hits the Fukushima plant, with seawater flowing inside the (reactor) turbine buildings.'' |
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