Japan Utility to Survey First Nuclear Reactor Since Fukushima: Nikkei

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Kansai Electric Power Co. has decided to begin full-scale consideration of building a new nuclear power plant. It will begin explaining the plan to local governments in Fukui Prefecture, where existing nuclear power plants are located, as early as next week. After the Great East Japan Earthquake in March 2011 and the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, major electric power companies...

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It was learned on the 18th that Kansai Electric Power will begin construction of a next-generation nuclear power plant. They will begin geological and other surveys on the site of the Mihama Nuclear Power Plant (Mihama-cho, Fukui Prefecture). This is the first time that plans to build a new or additional nuclear power plant have taken shape since the Great East Japan Earthquake. The government has positioned nuclear power as essential to achievi…

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Nuclear power is now of great interest to IT giants. In addition to the plant known from the Suomirock song, smaller reactors are also under consideration.