Major electric power companies are refusing to sign contracts with corporate customers who want a new alternative to the soaring prices that startups selling electricity are demanding.
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries said it recently started manufacturing casks for the transport and storage of used nuclear fuel for Shikoku Electric Power Company. The utility will use them at an interim dry storage facility at its Ikata nuclear power plant in Japan's Ehime Prefecture.
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.