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23 Nuclear Power Plants Are In Tsunami Zones

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By Chris Carrington 
theintelhub.com
February 8, 2013

Contributed by The Daily Sheeple

We have always known that tsunamis wreck lives and infrastructure.

They devastate crops and economy but generally it was considered that the areas recovered, they rebuilt and moved on.

Then, on March 11th 2011 all that changed. A massive earthquake and tsunami overtopped sea defenses leading to the flooding ofFukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

A group of scientists have published a study in Natural Hazards Journal that identifies the areas of the world most at risk from a major tsunami.

Based on that data it has been possible to identify 23 nuclear power plants in high tsunami risk areas. In total these 23 plants have 74 reactors. Four of the plants are currently expanding to house a total of nine more reactors.

Jose Manuel Rodriguez-Llanes, co-author of the study, and a researcher at the Center for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED) said:

“We are dealing with the first vision of the global distribution of civil nuclear power plants situated on the coast and exposed to tsunamis”

 

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