#Tsuruga #Nuke on ActiveFault! #敦賀 #原発 直下は活断層！#自民 時代に設置認可

[English news from AFP] Japan may scrap nuclear plant :AFP. 11 Dec.2012 * Geologists said Monday a Japanese nuclear plant may be sited over an active seismic fault, indicating that it will probably be scrapped. All five experts tasked by the Nuclear Regulation Authority with investigating the tectonic situation underneath Tsuruga plant in Fukui prefecture said it showed signs of geologically recent movement. Under government guidelines atomic installations cannot be sited on a fault -- the meeting place of two or more of the plates that make up the earth's crust -- if it is still classed as active. Shunichi Tanaka, head of the regulatory body, said: "I have the impression that we will never be able to go ahead with a safety review (of Tsuruga) for resumption." If the body formally decides that the plant, which houses two reactors on the Sea of Japan (East Sea) coast, is sitting above active faults, it is likely to be decommissioned. * 福島原発や敦賀原発を建設してきたかつての与党・自民党は、公約で「原発の安全性については、原子力規制委員会の専門的判断に委ねる」とし、再稼働可否は「３年以内の結論を目指す」と先送り。The Liberal Democratic Party, the once governing party, which has built the Fukushima nuclear power plant and the Tsuruga plant, a campaign pledge: "Special judgment of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission is entrusted Nuclear power plant safety", Re-operation propriety postponed as "Aims at less than 3 years of conclusion". * 敦賀原発"活断層"で廃炉の可能性も！　12月10日　NHKより 福井県の敦賀原子力発電所の断層について、国の原子力規制委員会は、専門家と評価する会議を開き、２号機の真下を走る断層が活断層の可能性があるという判断を示しました。 規制委員会の田中俊一委員長は「今のままでは再稼働の安全審査はできない」と述べ、敦賀原発の２号機は、運転再開できずに、今後廃炉になる可能性が出てきました。 * Tsuruga nuclear power plant may be on active fault!: NHKworld 10 Dec.2012 Japan's Nuclear Regulation Authority has determined that faults running underneath the Tsuruga nuclear power plant in Fukui Prefecture are active. The NRA Chairman Shunichi Tanaka said the body cannot give a permit to restart the plant's reactors, which have been off-line since last year's nuclear accident at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant. This comes after NRA official Kunihiko Shimazaki and 4 other experts carried out an on-site inspection earlier this month to see whether crush zones under the Tsuruga plant are actually active faults. The Tsuruga plant sits near the major Urasoko Fault. The team conducted a boring survey on Urasoko Fault and a fault called the D-1. The D-1 Fault branches out from Urasoko and runs directly beneath the Number 2 reactor. The experts said the Urasoko Fault is active and its possible impact on the fault under the plant in the event of an earthquake cannot be overestimated. They said that the stratum deformation found near the D-1 Fault was caused by forces similar to those that cause the Urasoko Fault to move. State regulations prohibit building nuclear reactors above active faults. Tanaka expressed readiness to convene a NSA meeting to hear opinions of members on what to do.