Published: July 12th, 2012 at 6:02 pm ET
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Court order sought to stop restart of reactors
NHK WORLD English
Jul. 12, 2012
A trial hearing has begun in a lawsuit filed by residents seeking a court order to stop the restart of a nuclear plant in Niigata Prefecture, central Japan.The 132 plaintiffs are asking a district court in the prefecture to stop Tokyo Electric Power Company’s plan to restart the Kashiwazaki Kariwa plant by March 2014.
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The plaintiffs say the Niigata plant is in an area that has been hit by repeated powerful earthquakes and is prone to liquefaction.
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The Niigata plant has seven reactors. Four are offline for regular safety checks and three are shut down.
Soil liquefaction
Wikipedia
Soil liquefaction describes a phenomenon whereby a saturated soil substantially loses strength and stiffness in response to an applied stress, usually earthquake shaking or other sudden change in stress condition, causing it to behave like a liquid.[...]
Although the effects of liquefaction have been long understood, it was more thoroughly brought to the attention of engineers after the 1964 Niigata earthquake and 1964 Alaska earthquake.
Published: July 12th, 2012 at 6:02 pm ET
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One of the plants included in recent Enenews.com report stating 14 reactors or 14 nuclear plants had nuclear accidents after EQ on 3/11/11.
We have NO assurance this plant is safe to be restarted. There was damage, as TEPCO obviously did some self-reported, or it was reported to NISA or some other agency.
Here's a link to one of the Enenews articles:
http://enenews.com/wikipedia-15-reactors-were-in-areas-affected-by-311-quake-higashidori-nuclear-plant-lost-all-external-power-tokai-daini-took-4-days-to-achieve-cold-shutdown
From Enformable 2/26/12:
"Fire alarms and Smoke reported at Kashiwazaki Kariwa – TEPCO Has Not Confirmed External Leakage"
http://enformable.com/2012/02/breaking-story-fire-alarms-and-smoke-reported-at-kashiwazaki-kariwa-tepco-has-not-confirmed-external-leakage/
Tepco faked nuclear safety records:
http://nuclear-news.net/2011/03/22/tokyo-electric-power-company-tepco-faked-nuclear-safety-records/
"In 2002 Tepco admitted falsifying safety reports, which led to all 17 of its boiling-water reactors being shut down for inspection, including Fukushima.
The revelation forced the then Tepco chairman and president to resign.
And in an eerily familiar event, a 2007 earthquake paralysed its Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear plant – the world’s biggest – and more radiation leaked than Tepco initially acknowledged."
http://www.smh.com.au/environment/power-company-failed-to-maintai
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From Bloomberg:
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-03-17/japan-s-nuclear-disaster-caps-decades-of-faked-safety-reports-accidents.html
Japan Nuclear Disaster Caps Decades of Faked Reports, Accidents
Nuclear Earthquake
(Katsuhiko Ishibashi is a seismology professor at Kobe University)
"In an interview in 2007 after Tokyo Electric’s Kashiwazaki nuclear plant was struck by an earthquake, Ishibashi said fundamental improvements were needed in engineering standards for atomic power stations, without which Japan could suffer a catastrophic disaster.
'We didn’t learn anything,' Ishibashi said in a phone interview this week. 'Nuclear power is national policy and there’s a real reluctance to scrutinize it.' "
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An earthquake in Nigata in 1964 (also Alaskan earthquake in 1964) prompted study of liquefaction of the ground there.
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Important to note they've been aware of the potential liquefaction issue for a long, long time.
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And here, as might arise of the Tsunami from the Mainland.
It is sufficient that the local river closed
http://cs-imx.s3.amazonaws.com/static/dailypic/20120615/17034.jpg
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Saikado Hantai!
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