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Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Japan's Nuclear Plants



If you type it into Google Earth, you will get a map pin-pointing the nuclear plants in Japan. The following are Name of Plant, distance(s) from nearby Tectonic Plate Boundaries, other seismic info. All are located on the island Honshu, except Sendai which is on Kyushu.

1) Hamaoka Power Plant, located on the ocean on the Eastern coast
21 miles from a plate boundary to the east, 41 miles from a plate boundary to the north
53 miles from a quake measuring 6.1 March 15, 2011.

2) Tokai Nuclear Plant, located on the on the Eastern coast
117 miles from a plate boundary to the east
69 miles south of Fukushima

3)Takahama Plant, located on the ocean on the Western coast
144 miles from a plate boundary to the north-east

4)Onagawa Plant, located on the ocean on Eastern coast
47 miles from the Epicenter of the March 11 quake,
80 miles north of Fukushima

5) Fukushima I
6) Fukushima II

7) Shika Nuclear Plant, located on the ocean on the Western coast
66 miles from a plate boundary to the east.

8) The Japan Atomic Energy Agency  ( label in Japanese in Google Earth ) not a plant.

9) Ikata Nuclear Plant, located on the ocean on the southern coast
131 miles from plate boundary on the south, 151 miles from plate boundary on the east.

10) Sendai Nuclear Power Plant
12 miles from a plate boundary on the north by Akune.

There are other places and institutions listed , and I'm not sure whether there are more power plants; many are universities involved, associations and organizations (There is also a listing called "Naked Loft" which bears further plate boundary scrutiny!) The ones above give us an idea of the situation.

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