Chubu Electric to build 18-meter seawall to protect Hamaoka nuclear plant (JAPAN)

[AsahinaKimi]

TOKYO —

Chubu Electric said Friday it will build an 18-meter anti-tsunami seawall to protect its aging Hamaoka nuclear plant located near a faultline in a region seen as vulnerable to earthquakes.

The decision came two months after the government asked the plant to shut down and add new disaster-mitigation measures amid deepening public fears about the safety of nuclear power in the wake of the Fukushima Daiichi crisis.

Chubu Electric said the seawall and other additional safety measures should protect the plant from a tsunami as strong as the one that crippled the Fukushima plant on after the March 11 earthquake.

The Hamaoka plant faces the Pacific Ocean and sits in the Tokai region, southwest of Tokyo, where seismologists have long warned that a major quake is overdue.

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http://www.japantoday.com/category/national/view/chubu-electric-to-build-18-meter-seawall-to-protect-hamaoka-nuclear-plant

better late then never, I guess..