TEPCO Delays Nuclear Power Project

Tokyo Electric Power Co. (Tepco) will put on hold the construction of an Aomori Prefecture nuclear reactor by one year.

The move will allow the company to comply with the tougher screening process adopted after the Niigata earthquake of last July.

Tepco had planned to start building the reactor at the Higashidori nuclear power plant this year and having it online by 2014.

The Higashidori No. 1 reactor will account for slightly more than 2% of the utility's power output once it comes on line.

A permit is needed from the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry to build a nuclear reactor.

This permit is issued after the plans have cleared two safety assessments:

1. The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry's Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency

2. The Cabinet Office's Nuclear Safety Commission.

Tepco's Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear plant in Niigata Prefecture was damaged by a tremor far stronger than the facility was designed to withstand.

Consequently, the government ordered safety reviews of all nuclear power plants, including those still in the planning stage.

In the meantime, OPEC and the oil fat cats are driving their silver Mercedes…that's a Mercedes made from silver, not the color silver.

A friend who visited Kuwait last year told me about this. 

Oma nuclear power plant in Aomori Prefecture is also ndergoing a safety screening. The company, known as J-Power has been waiting to start building the plant since August 2006.

Nuclear power is the answer to the oil prices.

Let's start building.

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