A utility that primarily provides electricity to northeastern Japan activated a procedure April 10 called “output power control” to halt its renewable energy feed from households and start-ups to avoid widespread blackouts caused by a wide gap in supply and demand.
Japan’s leading power companies decided to transfer ownership of tons of plutonium stored in Britain and France for reprocessing in a quest to reduce the stockpile as quickly as possible.
Seven of the country's 10 major electricity suppliers have said they will raise the rates amid soaring prices for liquefied natural gas and coal used at thermal power plants.
The economy ministry plans to bring back its subsidy program for areas that host pluthermal generation facilities in an attempt to break the logjam in the nuclear fuel recycling program.