Japan Safety Agency Says No Quake Damage Reported At Nuclear Facilities
Written by NucNet
Saturday, 14 June 2008
NucNet News No. 48
14 Jun (NucNet): No damage has been reported at any of Japan's nuclear
facilities and there have been no releases of radiation detected after
a strong earthquake hit the north of the country earlier today.
Japan's Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency (NISA) said its resident inspectors at nuclear power plants and other sites were checking the integrity of facilities although no faults or damage had yet been found.
NISA said an earthquake measuring 7.2 on the Richter scale struck at 08.43 local time today with the epicentre inland of Iwate prefecture.
Nuclear reactor units in operation in the region at the time of the earthquake continued to operate normally. Those reactors are all four units at Fukushima-Daini; Onagowa-2 and -3; and Fukushima-Daiichi-1, -2, -3 and -6.
NISA said no disturbance had been observed at any spent fuel pools, although 4 litres of water was found around the spent fuel pool of unit 4 at Tokyo Electric Power Company's Fukushima-Daini nuclear plant. The spillage remained within a controlled area and there had been no leakage or release of radiation detected in the outside environment.
Fifteen litres of water were found around the solid waste storage pool in a separate building common to all four Fukushima-Daini units, but this too remained within a controlled area and no leakage or release of radiation to the outside environment had been detected.
- by John Shepherd
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