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This Wednesday, Japanese authorities vetoed the implementation of the law for the first time. nuclear reactor by applying a protocol established at the national level after Fukushima nuclear power plant disasterwhich took place in 2011 after devastating earthquake and subsequent tsunami.

Office of Nuclear Regulation refused to approve the implementation reactor No. 2 of the Tsuruga power plant, managed by the company Nuclear power in Japanbecause It is located on a geological fault.

Japan is an earthquake-prone country and banned construction new reactors in such areas.

The memory of the 20,000 people killed in the tsunami that devastated Japan’s east coast on March 11, 2011, causing the Fukushima nuclear accident (with a traumatic evacuation, although no radiation deaths), is misused every year by anti-nuclear activists. pic.twitter.com/vGRk7TCIPc

— Nuclear plant operator (@OperadorNuclear) March 11, 2019

Thus, the nuclear power unit in central Japan became the first to suspend the controls introduced after The accident in Fukushima. In early July, the watchdog’s working group concluded that it could not rule out the possibility that the active fault is located approximately 300 meters north of the reactor building. According to the news agency, it also did not extend directly under the object. Kyodo.

In 2013, agency experts conducted an investigation that revealed the presence active fault in the area. Since then the assessment procedure was suspended twice after discovering that there were “inaccuracies” in some documents provided by the company.

At the moment, 27 of 35 reactors across the country are being inspected, Bye 17 have already received regulatory approval.

(Europe Press)