Fukushima Hot Springs Town to Build Geothermal Plant After Quake
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Hot springs operators in Tsuchiyu, a town about 80 kilometers (50 miles) northwest of Fukushima’s stricken nuclear station in Japan, plan to build a geothermal power plant as part of recovery efforts, a local group said.
The plant will have capacity of as much as 250 kilowatts and cost 300 million yen ($3.8 million), Kazuya Ikeda, secretary-general of the Yuyu Tsuchiyu Onsen Cooperative Union, whose 55 members include hot springs and store operators, said today in a phone interview. Operations at the binary plant may start as early as December 2013, he said.