The storm has already killed at least one person, injured dozens others and displaced thousands.
bringing damaging winds and torrential rains with it, killing at least one person, injuring many others and displacing thousands as the nation calls for an evacuation.currently shows the typhoon tracking northeast. Further down its journey, the storm could hit just south of the Shika Nuclear Power Station, one of the country's many nuclear power plants.
Despite the strong storm surging toward the power station, Andrew Whittaker, a nuclear power plant expert and professor at State University of New York at Buffalo, toldthat nuclear power plant buildings are designed for"extreme environmental loadings, including wind, wind-borne missiles, and earthquake shaking."
"So, I would not be concerned with typhoon-related wind pressures acting on a containment building that houses a reactor," Whittaker said. Above, a U.S. Navy storm tracker shows Super Typhoon Nanmadol hitting just south of the Shika Nuclear Power Station in Japan. Nuclear power stations are marked by a star on the map.nuclear power plant was ravaged by natural disasters
in 2011, when the nation's strongest earthquake and subsequent tsunami hit the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. The natural disasters triggered a nuclear meltdown at the plant, which is reported to be one of the most severe nuclear accidents in the world, second only to the Chernobyl disaster in Ukraine in 1986.there are protections in place at Japanese nuclear power plants to protect the buildings from storm surges and tsunami waves.
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