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The Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant leaked radiation during an earthquake in July. | Photo: (c) TEPCO |
Nuclear plant quake stronger than admitted
Tokyo Electric Power Co.‘s Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power station recorded a jolt with a seismic intensity of 7 on the Japanese scale of 7–similar to that of the Great Hanshin Earthquake in 1995–during the Niigata Prefecture Chuetsu Offshore Earthquake in July, it was learned Sunday.
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