Possibility of epicentral earthquake right under Fukushima plant

 

Following up this article ..What’s going on under north latitude 37.0° east longitude140.7° ?

Prof. Dapeng Zhao from Tohoku university published his study to warn the possibility of epicentral earthquake right under Fukushima plant is becoming serious on a professional journal in Europe.

He states he can’t tell when it happens but Fukushima plants need to be reinforced for possible earthquake.
As the reason, he explains that there is water vein underground underneath Fukushima plants, just like Iwaki shi where a scale 6 hit last April because near active fault slipped.

Source

福島原発直下で地震の恐れも 東北大グループが分析

東京電力福島第1原発の地下は、昨年4月に東日本大震災の余震とみられる震度6弱の地震が起きた福島県いわき市の地下と、深部から水が供給されているなど特徴が似ており、近くの活断層が滑って直下型地震が起こりやすくなっているとの調査結果を、東北大の趙大鵬教授(地震学)らが14日発行の欧州の専門誌で発表した。

趙教授は「地震がいつ起こるかまでは分からない。原発では廃炉に向けた作業が続いているが、耐震や防災の対策を強化すべきだ」としている。

2012/02/14 20:35 【共同通信】

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This website updates the latest news about the Fukushima nuclear plant and also archives the past news from 2011. Because it's always updated and added live, articles, categories and the tags are not necessarily fitted in the latest format.
I am the writer of this website. About page remains in 2014. This is because my memory about 311 was clearer than now, 2023, and I think it can have a historical value. Now I'm living in Romania with 3 cats as an independent data scientist.
Actually, nothing has progressed in the plant since 2011. We still don't even know what is going on inside. They must keep cooling the crippled reactors by water, but additionally groundwater keeps flowing into the reactor buildings from the broken parts. This is why highly contaminated water is always produced more than it can circulate. Tepco is planning to officially discharge this water to the Pacific but Tritium is still remaining in it. They dilute this with seawater so that it is legally safe, but scientifically the same amount of radioactive tritium is contained. They say it is safe to discharge, but none of them have drunk it.

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