Tepco to Move Backup Generators as Months of Aftershocks Loom
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Tokyo Electric Power Co. will move emergency generators to higher ground to avoid further tsunamis as it fights to stabilize the crippled Fukushima reactors amid aftershocks that may continue for six months or more.
The diesel backup generators will be placed 20 meters (66 feet) above sea level, double the current height, and be hooked up to the cooling systems around April 19, the company said yesterday. Aftershocks as big as magnitude-7 are likely to continue striking the area, said Teruyuki Kato, a professor at the University of Tokyo’s Earthquake Research Institute.