Japan Times April 04

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source : Japan Times Online

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http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/nn20110404f1.html
Kansai region wonders: Could it happen here?
Fukui is home to Japan's largest concentration of nuclear plants
By ERIC JOHNSTON

TSURUGA, Fukui Pref.
At Home, the Fukui Atomic Energy Science Museum.

... With 14 reactors inside a roughly 60-km radius, Fukui Prefecture is home to Japan's, and possibly the world's, largest concentration of nuclear plants. For more than four decades, nuclear power from Fukui has provided up to half of all electricity for the adjacent Kansai region. In return for hosting the plants, prefectural residents received central government and utility subsidies. These helped make possible not only centers like At Home, but also the local roads, bridges, port facilities, streetlights and basic municipal services city people take for granted.

... Fukui Gov. Issei Nishikawa, all but guaranteed of being re-elected on April 10, has called on Tokyo to review its safety standards. In some areas, Fukui already has tougher policies than the central government, and the governor has suggested Fukui's policies might provide Tokyo with some lessons.

... "First is the problem of evacuation. Smaller roads in and out of Fukui towns and villages running through the various peninsulas where the power plants are located could be damaged, preventing people from being able to evacuate.

"The second problem is that the concentration of nuclear power plants in such a small area could mean many of them could be damaged, complicating rescue efforts," she said.

Finally, since the closest Fukui nuclear power plants are only about 30 km from the northern shore of Lake Biwa, the freshwater source for millions of Kyoto residents, it can't be just Fukui Prefecture that thinks about what would happen if the plants were damaged.

"The possibility of a natural disaster damaging plants in Fukui is a problem that all of Kansai, which benefits from Fukui's nuclear plants, needs to make contingency plans for," Hitomi Taguchi said.


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