TOKYO, July 17 — Japanese authorities today suspended the operation of a nuclear power plant damaged by a deadly earthquake near the nation’s northwest coast that has raised new concerns about the safety of Japan’s accident-plagued nuclear power industry.
Tokyo Electric, the company that operates the nuclear plant, was examining whether the earthquake had knocked the lids off drums of radioactive waste at the site, a spokesman for the company said.
The earthquake, which struck on Monday morning near the city of Kashiwazaki, caused a small fire at the nuclear plant, the world’s largest by amount of electricity produced, which later leaked about 317 gallons of water containing low levels of radioactive materials into the Sea of Japan.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/17/world/asia/17cnd-quake.html?hp
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