This article analyzes the great megatectonic earthquake, which triggered an expected 300-500 fatalities on New Year Day’s in the Noto Peninsula of western Japan. As stated by the author, the nuclear explosion was the result of a very large quantity of radioactivity that emanated from two decommissioned reactors (Monju [in Fukui Prefecture] and Fugen [in Fukui Prefecture].
Reactor units, (named after Buddhist holy men), were deactivated due to poor performance, but before that, erosion and lethaticity were created in the submerged mountains on the northern slope of the Noto Hanto ridge. In the opinion of the author, the Japanese government has up to now succeeded in obfuscating the precise circumstances of the accident, which has driven to disappearance the agrarian society and cultural tradition, and to fuel the fear of becoming runaway power from nuclear energy.
In the opening years of the 1990s the paper introduces an integrated geology of the landscape together with the history of the reactor(s), and also, with the author’s private history as an opponent of the reactor(s).