June 26, 2012
By LOUIS TEMPLADO/ AJW Staff Writer
Thousands of protesters in front of his office last week weren?t enough to dissuade Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda from his plan to restart Japan?s nuclear reactors, starting with a pair in Oi, Fukui Prefecture.
On June 26, two seismological experts took their turns, speaking at the Foreign Correspondents? Club of Japan in Tokyo.
Mitsuhisa Watanabe, tectonic geomorphologist at Toyo University, and Katsuhiko Ishibashi, seismologist and professor emeritus at Kobe University, argued that the Oi nuclear power plant reactors sit far more precariously than their operator, Kansai Electric Power Co. (KEPCO), has claimed in order to rush their restart...
