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Japan's Chubu Electric to apply for nuclear plant safety approval
2013-09-25 08:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Japan's Chubu Electric Power Co said on Wednesday it will apply for safety approvals of the No. 4 reactor at its sole Hamaoka nuclear plant by the end of March 2014, aiming to restart the facility which was shut after the Fukushima crisis due to fears it was vulnerable to earthquakes and tsunamis. Japan's third-biggest utility, serving the heart of Japan's auto industry in central Japan, shut the Hamaoka plant, located in a higly earthquake-prone region 200 km (120 miles) southwest of Tokyo, in...
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History and the rise of Shandong set challenge for Japan's car makers in China
2013-09-18 03:10:00| Automakers - Topix.net
A year after their China sales were battered by protests in a territorial dispute, Japan's big automakers are finding it tough to bounce back in the world's biggest market.
In a sign reforms to come, newcomers snap at heels of Japan's utilities
2013-09-15 08:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The Fukushima nuclear disaster is driving one of Japan's biggest industry overhauls since World War Two, as new, nimble suppliers take business from the big regional power monopolies, and manufacturers, from steelmakers to drinks firms, generate their own power and sell what they don't need. The 10 powerful regional utilities, which still supply around 90 percent of Japan's electricity - even with the country's nuclear industry virtually idled since the 2011 disaster - are expected to be broken...
Japan's Government Takes Over the Fukushima Cleanup
2013-09-11 00:24:30| ENR.com: Headline News
Japanese leaders announced that they will use ground freezing to isolate the troubled Fukushima nuclear powerplant.
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South Korea bans fish imports from Japan's Fukushima region
2013-09-06 16:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: South Korea has banned all fish imports from a large area of Japan in response to growing concern over the possible environmental impact of recent leaks of highly toxic water at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. In Japan, the row over the plant operator's handling of the leaks deepened on Friday when the head of the country's nuclear watchdog issued a stern rebuke to Tokyo Electric Power (Tepco) for causing unnecessary alarm overseas by releasing "scientifically unacceptable" information...
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