Reading Newspaper 2

Continuing the same article as reading exercise,




なにしろ国内初の軽水炉、若狭湾を囲む「原発銀座」の先駆だった。 供え物が足りなかったとは思わないが、鎮めがたい魔物が地に潜んでいた後年、敷地を走る浦底断層が、地震で暴れる活断層と判明する。




The site not only came to house Japan's first light water reactor, it was also the first of many nuclear plants that came to be built near Wakasa Bay.I'm sure Japan Atomic Power didn't stint on the rice and sake. But it now seems that a demon living there was ultimately un-appeasable. The Urasoko fault line runs beneath the plant compound. It is now assessed as an active fault, which could move and wreak havoc during an earthquake








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Source of article is Asahi Shimbun