Investigation at Tsuruga plant over active faults

Investigation at Tsuruga plant over active faults

TSURUGA, Japan - Kunihiko Shimazaki, commissioner of the Nuclear Regulation Authority, checks samples from boring at Japan Atomic Power Co.'s Tsuruga plant in Fukui Prefecture on Dec. 1, 2012, as the team from the nuclear regulatory body started a field survey to check whether active faults are running directly underneath reactors at the plant.

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