Abstract
On 6 May 2011 Prime Minister Kan called for the immediate suspension of operations at the Hamaoka Nuclear Power Plant because it sits directly above the Tokai fault line where seismologists predict an earthquake over the magnitude of 8.0 could hit at any time during the next thirty years. Altogether there were five reactors at Hamaoka. No. 1 and No. 2 reactors had already been decommissioned since 2009. A sixth reactor has been under construction since December 2008.
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Notes
C. Johnson, Japan: Who Governs? The Rise of the Developmental State (New York: W. W. Norton, 1995), p. 190.
K. Ishibashi, ‘Why Worry? Japan’s Nuclear Plants at Grave Risks from Quake Damage’ International Herald Tribune/Asashi Shimbun, 11 August 2007.
M. Fackler and N. Onishi, ‘In Japan, a Culture That Promotes Nuclear Dependency’ New York Times, 31 May 2011.
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Carpenter, S. (2012). Pork-Barrel Patronage in the Prefectures: the Proliferation of Nuclear Power Plants. In: Japan’s Nuclear Crisis. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230363717_7
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