30, 2017 file photo taken from a Mainichi Shimbun airplane shows the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear

to a Tepco plan for Kashiwazaki-Kariwa's restart after identifying inadequate security safeguards

TOKYO( Reuters)-The powerful earthquake that hit Japan's western coast on New Year's Day has underscored the country's exposure to natural disasters, casting fresh doubt over a push to bring its nuclear capacity back online. Nuclear power plants dot the coast of mountainous Japan, which is prone to earthquakes and tsunamis due to its location on the seismically active" Ring of Fire" around the Pacific Ocean. Monday's magnitude 7.6 earthquake, which has killed more than 80 people in the Hokuriku

Miraculously, no one was hurt.“ It all happened in the blink of an eye, ” she said, standing next to the crushed car on a road littered with debris and mud that oozed out from cracks in the surface.... Nearly 20, 000 homes have no water supply. Nuclear plants The quake also comes at a sensitive time for Japan’s nuclear industry, which has faced fierce opposition from locals since a 2011 earthquake and tsunami triggered nuclear meltdowns in Fukushima on the eastern coast.... The company said th

And in Japan, quakes quickly become a part of life.... For this generation all those fears were realised on 11 March, 2011. For two minutes the earth shook in a way no-one had experienced within living memory.... It went on, and on, and on. Anyone who lived through it can recount exactly where they were and how terrified they felt....

Спустя 8 лет сотрудники TEPCO продолжают работы по устранению последствий аварии на станции ？Фукусима-1？. Фото Reuters Многие причисляют ядерную энергетику к зеленой, поскольку АЭС практически не имеют выбросов парниковых газов.