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Two days after Fukushima disaster TEPCO planned 2 new reactors there

Tepco announced last week that four reactors at the centre of the crisis will never go back into service. At the same time, however, it submitted a report to the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry that included a proposed timetable for the construction and commissioning of two new reactors – No. 7 and No. 8 – at the same complex….

Power company back pedals over reactor plans, Sydney Morning Herald, Andrew Higgins April 7, 2011, FUKUSHIMA: Even as it struggled to contain the world’s worst nuclear disaster in a quarter of a century, Tokyo Electric Power Company late last month quietly set out big plans for the future: it proposed building two new nuclear reactors at its radiation-spewing Fukushima Daiichi power plant.

Tokyo Electric had informed Fukushima prefecture on March 26 of its desire to start building the reactors as early as next spring, local officials said.That was just two weeks after an explosion at the utility’s tsunami-crippled complex set off a cascade of catastrophes.

The proposal was included in a formal report submitted last Thursday to authorities in Tokyo as part of an annual process designed to assess Japan’s future electricity supply.

”It was just unbelievable,” said Yoichi Nozaki, the director general of Fukushima’s Planning and Co-ordination Department, which oversees energy matters in the capital of the region most blighted by the biggest nuclear debacle since Chernobyl……

Tepco announced last week that four reactors at the centre of the crisis will never go back into service. At the same time, however, it submitted a report to the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry that included a proposed timetable for the construction and commissioning of two new reactors – No. 7 and No. 8 – at the same complex….

Power company back pedals over reactor plans

April 7, 2011 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | business and costs, Japan