Tepco Vows to Push Ahead With Restart of Niigata Nuclear Station
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Tokyo Electric Power Co., operator of the crisis-ridden Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear station, vowed to press ahead with plans to restart another atomic plant in Niigata prefecture that’s key to its return to profitability.
“We’d like to file for safety inspection after gaining approval from the prefecture,” Tokyo Electric President Naomi Hirose told reporters today after meeting with Hirohiko Izumida, the governor of Niigata prefecture where the utility’s Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant is located. “We’d like to ask them to give us permission soon.”