Reactors must be terror-proof as well as quake-proof: regulator

TOKYO — Japan’s new nuclear regulator said Wednesday it was going to require power companies to make reactors terror-proof as well as quake-resistant, as the body set out to prove it was a watchdog with teeth.

Shunichi Tanaka, chairman of the Nuclear Regulation Authority, said plants would have to be able to survive a direct hit from a hijacked airliner or ship, as well as withstand tsunamis like the one that crippled Fukushima.

“For absolutely sure, if we continue… Japan will have the world’s toughest standards in terms of earthquakes and tsunami,” Tanaka told a press conference.
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