Katsuhiko Ishibashi

Katsuhiko Ishibashi

Katsuhiko Ishibashi is a Professor in the "Research Center for Urban Safety and Security" in the "Graduate School of Science" at Kobe University, Japan. Professor Ishibashi is a seismologist who has written extensively in the areas of seismicity and seismotectonics in and around the Japanese Islands. [ [http://www.planet.sci.kobe-u.ac.jp/study/list/seis/ishibashi_e.html Katsuhiko ISHIBASHI] ] He recently coined the term "genpatsu-shinsai", from the Japanese words for "nuclear power" and "quake disaster". [ [http://technology.newscientist.com/channel/tech/nuclear/mg19526144.500 Insight: Where not to build nuclear power stations] ]

ee also

*Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant
*Pacific Ring of Fire

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