Word: kashiwazaki
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...KASHIWAZAKI, JAPAN...
...person reportedly still missing. That's far less than a 2004 quake that struck the same area and killed more than 60 while leaving 16,000 homeless. But instead of feeling relief, the entire country has been rattled by TV images of black smoke billowing from Niigata's Kashiwazaki Kariwa nuclear power plant, located just 9km (5.6 miles) from the epicenter in the Sea of Japan. The plant suffered a string of problems when the temblor struck. Tokyo Electric, the Kashiwazaki plant's owner/operator, was quick to point out that a smoky fire that broke out in an electric transformer...
...quake showed that assumptions and suppositions that safety standards are based on are completely false," says Baku Nishio, a co-director at Citizen's Nuclear Information Center. "Japan is simply too quake-bound to operate nuclear plants." There's also uncertainty about where the next quake will strike. The Kashiwazaki facility underwent a tectonic survey last year to reevaluate the site's quake resistency and update it in accordance with new government guidelines. That survey concluded there were no active faults in the vicinity...
...HIRED. KAORU HASUIKE, 45, former law student and one of five kidnapped Japanese repatriated in October from North Korea, to teach a Korean language course; in Kashiwazaki, Niigata prefecture. The job is part of the city's plan to resettle Hasuike and his wife, Yukiko, who was also kidnapped by North Korea. But Pyongyang may still demand their return...
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