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The plan must still be made into a bill and be approved by parliament before taking effect...The operator of a nuclear power plant in central Japan began Friday the process of shutting down its reactors as part of an agreement with the government to...
Channel NewsAsia
The operator of Japan's ageing Hamaoka nuclear plant, located near a tectonic faultline southwest of Tokyo, on Friday began shutting down one of its two running reactors, a plant official said. Chubu Electric Power started installing control rods...
Asia Times
Pervasive and ongoing power shortages represent perhaps the biggest hurdle to sustaining Vietnam's fast economic growth and attractiveness as a manufacturing base to foreign investors. The country will need to add an additional 4,600 megawatts of...
The Jakarta Post
Follow us on World The operator of a nuclear power plant in central Japan says it has begun the process of shutting down its reactors, as part of an agreement with the government to temporarily suspend operations until it strengthens tsunami...
International Business Times
EDT One of the reactors at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi power plant suffered a nuclear meltdown, Japanese officials admitted for the first time today. Engineers from the Tokyo Electric Power company (Tepco) entered the No.1 reactor for the first...
BBC
Japan's government approves Tepco compensation scheme Fukushima's nuclear reactor sparked fears of a meltdown Japan's government has approved a plan to help Tokyo Electric Power (Tepco) compensate victims of the crisis at its tsunami-crippled nuclear...