Japanese nuclear plant a time bomb?

Japanese nuclear plant a time bomb?

"It is the world's most dangerous nuclear power plant. All its reactors should have been shut down," Katsuhiko Ishibashi said, warning that the ground on which it sits could rise 10-20 feet if struck by an earthquake.

by Staff Writers
Tokyo (UPI) May 3, 2011
In the wake of Japan's nuclear crisis, fears are mounting that disaster could also strike the country's Hamaoka Nuclear Power Plant.

"The Hamaoka plant is potentially even more dangerous than Fukushima," Mizuho Fukushima, leader of the Social Democratic Party of Japan, was quoted by The Christian Science Monitor newspaper as saying.

Situated on the Pacific coast in Omaezaki, about 112 miles southwest of Tokyo, Hamaoka is in an area where a magnitude-8 earthquake is strongly projected to hit.

Japanese nuclear plant a time bomb?