Seismologists warn Japan against nuclear restart

[kristopher]

Seismologists warn Japan against nuclear restart

TOKYO | Tue Jun 26, 2012 4:30pm IST
(Reuters) - Two prominent seismologists said on Tuesday that Japan is ignoring the safety lessons of last year's Fukushima crisis and warned against restarting two reactors next month.

...Seismic modeling by Japan's nuclear regulator did not properly take into account active fault lines near the Ohi plant, Katsuhiko Ishibashi, a seismologist at Kobe University, told reporters.

"The stress tests and new safety guidelines for restarting nuclear power plants both allow for accidents at plants to occur," Ishibashi told reporters. "Instead of making standards more strict, they both represent a severe setback in safety standards."

Experts advising Japan's nuclear industry had underestimated the seismic threat, Mitsuhisa Watanabe, a tectonic geomorphology professor at Tokyo University, said at the same news conference.

"The expertise and neutrality of experts advising Japan's Nuclear Industrial Safety Agency are highly questionable," Watanabe said...

http://in.reuters.com/article/2012/06/26/us-japan-nuclear-idINBRE85P0FP20120626

[RobertEarl]

1. Who can we trust?

"The expertise and neutrality of experts advising Japan's Nuclear Industrial Safety Agency are highly questionable," Watanabe said..

Those experts are the ones who could have kept Fukushima off the news. They should be ashamed of them selves. And made to live at Fukshima.