Katsuhiko Ishibashi

Katsuhiko Ishibashi (石橋 克彦 Ishibashi Katsuhiko, born August 8, 1944) is a professor in the Research Center for Urban Safety and Security in the Graduate School of Science at Kobe University, Japan and a seismologist who has written extensively in the areas of seismicity and seismotectonics in and around the Japanese Islands.[1] He recently coined the term genpatsu-shinsai (原発震災), from the Japanese words for "nuclear power" and "quake disaster".[2][3]

Katsuhiko Ishibashi has said that Japan’s history of nuclear accidents stems from an overconfidence in plant engineering. He was a member of a 2006 Japanese government subcommittee charged with revising the national guidelines on the earthquake-resistance of nuclear power plants, published in 2007.[4] His proposal that the committee should review the standards for surveying active faults was rejected and, at the committee's final meeting he resigned claiming that the review process was "unscientific"[4] and the outcome rigged[5][6] to suit the interests of the Japan Electric Association, which had 11 of its committee members on the 19-member government subcommittee[6] and that among other problems the guide was "seriously flawed" as a consequence because it underestimated the design basis earthquake ground motion.[7]

In May 2011, he said: "If Japan had faced up to the dangers earlier, we could have prevented Fukushima".[8]

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References

  1. ↑ Katsuhiko ISHIBASHI Kobe University staff list. March 24, 2011
  2. ↑ Katsuhiko Ishibashi, "Why worry? Japan's nuclear plants at grave risk from quake damage" The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus (August 11, 2007) Also published by the International Herald Tribune (August 11, 2007). Retrieved March 24, 2011
  3. ↑ Michael Reilly, "Insight: Where not to build nuclear power stations" (preview only) New Scientist (July 28, 2007). Retrieved March 24, 2011 (subscription required)
  4. 1 2 "Quake shuts world's largest nuclear plant" Nature, vol 448, 392-393, doi:10.1038/448392a, (July 25, 2007) Retrieved March 18, 2011
  5. ↑ Jason Clenfield (March 17, 2011). "Japan Nuclear Disaster Caps Decades of Faked Reports, Accidents". Bloomberg Businessweek.
  6. 1 2 Japan Nuclear Energy Drive Compromised by Conflicts of Interest Bloomberg, published 2007-12-12, accessed 2011-04-11
  7. ↑ Katsuhiko Ishibashi, "Why worry? Japan's nuclear plants at grave risk from quake damage" The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus (August 11, 2007) Also published by the International Herald Tribune (August 11, 2007). Retrieved March 24, 2011
  8. ↑ Hiroko Tabuchi (6 May 2011). "Japan Asks Another Nuclear Plant to Shut Down Its Reactors". The New York Times. Retrieved July 9, 2011.
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