Kansai Electric Power s plan next month to relaunch the last idle reactor at its flagship nuclear plant, capping a year-long series of restarts, will mark an energy shift in Japan with the sharpest drop in LNG imports since the Fukushima disaster.
KAMINOSEKI, Yamaguchi Prefecture Chugoku Electric Power Co. held key talks with Kaminoseki Mayor Tetsuo Nishi here Aug. 2 to explain its hopes of building an interim storage facility for spent nuclear fuel in his town.
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The industry ministry said Friday it ordered four major Japanese utility groups to improve their operations after they were found to have formed electricity sales cartels.