Japan is ready to welcome experts from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to inspect nuclear plant in Fukushima. "We do our best to ensure transparency and accept the arrival of investigators from the IAEA," said the spokesman of the Japanese government, Yukio Edano, at a press conference Tuesday, May 17 An international team of twenty specialists of the Agency will be in Japan from May 24 to June 2 to analyze the accident at the plant.
They will submit their findings at a meeting of ministers at the IAEA headquarters in Vienna next month, according to Mr. Edano. Four of six reactors at Fukushima Dai-ichi suffered heavy damage due to explosions, flooding and other damage resulting from the shutdown cooling systems, destroyed by the giant earthquake and tsunami that ravaged North eastern Japan on March 11.
Moreover, the operator of the Hamaoka nuclear power plant was arrested Saturday production of this facility located in a region of high seismic activity in central Japan, responding to a government request, the company said Chubu Electric Power. The plant is considered the highest risk in Japan, says the New York Times.
The newspaper reveals that over the last decade, associations tried in vain to warn about the dangers threatening the seismic station. Seismologists, warned that there were already 87% chance that an earthquake of magnitude 8 struck over the next thirty years this central area, distant one hundred kilometers from the industrial area of Nagoya, and 200 km from Tokyo.
It took an earthquake on March 11 that the government decides to act. Japanese Prime Minister, Naoto Kan, asked Chubu Electric Power to suspend operation of the Hamaoka plant on behalf of the safety of surrounding populations. Mr Kan said that a serious accident on this site could have a "huge impact on Japanese society as a whole." The plant is located near strategic transportation routes between the two lungs Economic archipelago, the megacity of Tokyo and Kansai, where the cities of Osaka and Kobe.
The No. 4 reactor of the plant was arrested Friday. Unit 3 is also, for verification, while units 1 and 2 of the plant to five reactors were finally halted in 2009. The shutdown of the reactor 5 should start Saturday. Formally, the shutdown of units 3, 4 and 5 is not definitive. During their stay of at least two years, the company will make a series of investments, mainly to build a dam and improve safety measures to guard against a tsunami.
Like other Japanese nuclear plants, Hamaoka is in the sea, near the Pacific Ocean. This plant, owned the only Chubu Electric, representing approximately 15% of the total production capacity of the operator who feeds the center of Japan. The company plans to increase the activity of its power plants through additional imports of oil, to be fit for the peak summer consumption. 
They will submit their findings at a meeting of ministers at the IAEA headquarters in Vienna next month, according to Mr. Edano. Four of six reactors at Fukushima Dai-ichi suffered heavy damage due to explosions, flooding and other damage resulting from the shutdown cooling systems, destroyed by the giant earthquake and tsunami that ravaged North eastern Japan on March 11.
Moreover, the operator of the Hamaoka nuclear power plant was arrested Saturday production of this facility located in a region of high seismic activity in central Japan, responding to a government request, the company said Chubu Electric Power. The plant is considered the highest risk in Japan, says the New York Times.
The newspaper reveals that over the last decade, associations tried in vain to warn about the dangers threatening the seismic station. Seismologists, warned that there were already 87% chance that an earthquake of magnitude 8 struck over the next thirty years this central area, distant one hundred kilometers from the industrial area of Nagoya, and 200 km from Tokyo.
It took an earthquake on March 11 that the government decides to act. Japanese Prime Minister, Naoto Kan, asked Chubu Electric Power to suspend operation of the Hamaoka plant on behalf of the safety of surrounding populations. Mr Kan said that a serious accident on this site could have a "huge impact on Japanese society as a whole." The plant is located near strategic transportation routes between the two lungs Economic archipelago, the megacity of Tokyo and Kansai, where the cities of Osaka and Kobe.
The No. 4 reactor of the plant was arrested Friday. Unit 3 is also, for verification, while units 1 and 2 of the plant to five reactors were finally halted in 2009. The shutdown of the reactor 5 should start Saturday. Formally, the shutdown of units 3, 4 and 5 is not definitive. During their stay of at least two years, the company will make a series of investments, mainly to build a dam and improve safety measures to guard against a tsunami.
Like other Japanese nuclear plants, Hamaoka is in the sea, near the Pacific Ocean. This plant, owned the only Chubu Electric, representing approximately 15% of the total production capacity of the operator who feeds the center of Japan. The company plans to increase the activity of its power plants through additional imports of oil, to be fit for the peak summer consumption.
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