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A Japanese official said nuclear-plant seismic-safety standards need to be toughened, a move that could delay the restart of idled reactors.
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TOKYO—Guidelines for Japan's nuclear plants fail to account for worst-case earthquake and tsunami scenarios and need to be revised, said the head of a government committee drafting new seismic-safety standards, raising the prospect of further delays in the government's push to get idled reactors around Japan restarted.
Big Japan Quakes Still a Risk Chester Dawson 2011
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California legislators demanded a halt to any relicensing of two plants in that state pending state-of- the-art seismic-safety studies, and
Forbes.com: News Forbes Blogs 2011
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But only 14 percent of buildings in that vulnerable swath were built to seismic-safety standards, the report said.
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But only 14 percent of buildings in that vulnerable swath were built to seismic-safety standards, the report said.
unknown title 2009
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Engineers and geologists have said that buildings constructed to seismic-safety standards should not have collapsed in a 6. 3-magnitude quake, raising the possibility that either building codes weren't followed or that shoddy materials were used in some cases.
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But only 14 percent of buildings in that vulnerable swath meet seismic-safety standards, the report said.
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But only 14 percent of buildings in that vulnerable swath were built to seismic-safety standards, the report said.
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But only 14 percent of buildings in that vulnerable swath meet seismic-safety standards, the report said.
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But only 14 percent of buildings in that vulnerable swath were built to seismic-safety standards, the report said.
unknown title 2009
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