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2011 June 8 - 14 [ENVIRONMENT]

JCP local representatives in Kinki observe nuclear plants in Fukui

Japanese Communist Party local assembly members in the Kinki area on June 8 visited nuclear power plants on Wakasa Bay of Fukui Prefecture.

They were JCP prefectural assembly members from Kyoto and Hyogo as well as city assembly members from Kyoto, Ayabe, and Maizuru cities in Kyoto.

Kansai Electric Power Co. (KEPCO) runs 11 out of 15 nuclear reactors in Fukui. Many of them are located within 1 km from active faults.

Ayabe and Maizuru cities are located within a 10 km radius of the Takahama nuclear power plant in Fukui. Almost all of the ancient capital of Kyoto and the north-eastern part of Hyogo are within a 80km-zone from the plant.

Lake Biwa, the water source of the Kinki area, is in Shiga Prefecture located next to Fukui.

After touring the nuclear power plants and related facilities, JCP local representatives visited the Fukui prefectural office where government officials in charge of atomic power and disaster prevention provided explanations to them.

In answer to their question as to how the government considers the threat to the water quality of Lake Biwa if a serious nuclear accident occurs at one of the reactors in Fukui, the officials answered that such an accident would not occur in the first place.