Tsunami threatens Asian nuclear power plants

Nuclear and geological experts warn that in the future, at least 32 plants in Asia that are operating or under construction are at risk of suffering tsunamis.

Asia's nuclear power plants, especially China, may suffer similar earthquakes and tsunamis because Japan is located very close to the submerged zone.

Like Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant , these plants are located only a few hundred kilometers away from the geological fault line that caused the largest earthquakes in history.

These are called submerged zone zones, earthquakes occur when a geological tectonic plate is crushed by another geological array.And because the Manila Trench has not caused any major earthquake in at least 440 years, some experts believe that the great pressure is forming, so the risk of a major fault is increasing.

Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant has yet to overcome the earthquake crisis, the March 11 tsunami. (Source: Kyodo )

If that happens, four nuclear power plants in southern China and a Taiwan island plant (China) will likely experience a similar tsunami in Fukushima.

' We are worried that these plants will suffer disaster. Maybe not 10 years from now, but 50 or 100 years ', GS. David Yuen, expert in seismic modeling at the University of Minnesota (USA), said.

Asia is a region that is prone to seismic activity, but is undergoing a nuclear renaissance because the countries in the region are trying to increase power for a huge population and booming economies. .

Even if countries have taken a reasonable assessment of seismic disasters, many evaluations do not produce consistent results with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) of the United Nations.

Experts hope that the disaster in Japan has "taught" the world an important lesson: when researching nuclear safety, imagine the unimaginable things. It's not enough to just look at the past 50 years or 500 years ago.

The earthquake struck the subduction zone in Indonesia, causing the tsunami to take the lives of 230,000 people in dozens of countries. It also caused big waves into India's Kalpakkam nuclear research center, thousands of kilometers from the epicenter.