Selecting Sites of Nuclear Power Plants
A nuclear power plant is located at a site where the earthquake risk is minimal and it is quantified. Investigations are carried in the site area to establish the suitability of the site by:
1. Ruling out the possibility of ground failure during earthquakes on account of surface faulting, liquefaction, collapse, subsidence or landslides.
2. Delineating areas where damaging earthquakes could occur in future, and
3. Quantifying the vibratory ground motion from these earthquakes in terms of its severity (intensity, magnitude and amplitudes of the different components of ground motion: acceleration, velocity and displacement) and probability of occurrence.
This page was updated on January 12, 2011