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内部被ばくの検査結果説明会
7 月 23 日 19 時 8 分
東京電力福島第一原子力発電所の事故による被ばくの影響などを調べる福島県の健康調
査で一部の住民に行った「内部被ばく」の検査の結果を本人に直接伝える説明会が２
３日から始まりました
福 島県の健康調査は県内のすべての住民を対象に原発事故による被ばくの影響など
を調べるものでこのうち２９００人余りが呼吸や食事などで体内に放射 性物質を取
り込む「内部被ばく」を引き起こしたかどうか詳しい検査を受けています２３日は検
査結果を本人に直接伝える初めての説明会が開かれ浪江町 の住民２３人が参加しまし
た参加した人たちは県の担当者から検査結果の入った封筒を受け取ったあと内部被ばくの数値の求め方など結果の読み取り方 について放射線医学総合研究所の専門家
から説明を受けていましたこのあと個別の質問を受け付ける時間も設けられ「検出
限界以下であっても放射性 物質が体内に入れば影響があるのではないか」とか
「尿と共に放射性物質が排出されてもそれまでに被ばくした分は大丈夫なのか」といっ
た不安の声が寄 せられたということです説明会のあと参加した女性は「数値の説
明は難しくすべては理解できませんでしたがとりあえず放射性物質が検出されなかっ
たと聞いて自分も一緒にいた家族も大丈夫だろうとほっとしました」と話していました
福島県は今月２９日と３０日にも「内部被ばく」の検査結果につい て説明会を開く
ことにしています
東京電力福島第一原子力発電所の事故による被ばくの影響などを調べる福島県の健康調査
でこれまでに 詳しい検査を受けた１２２人の結果が判明し呼吸や食事などで取り込
んだ放射性物質による「内部被ばく」は全員１ミリシーベルト未満であることが分かり
ましたこれは福島県の依頼で浪江町と飯舘村それに川俣町山木屋地区の住民１２
２人の精密検査を行った放射線医学総合研究所の明石真言理事が２３ 日住民に対す
る検査結果の説明会のあと報道陣に明らかにしたものです明石理事によりますと先
月２７日から行ってきた内部被ばくの検査が終了し内 部被ばくは１２２人全員が１
ミリシーベルト未満でこのうちおよそ半数の人からは放射性物質が検出されなかった
ということですもっとも多くの放射性 物質が放出された時期から３か月以上たってい
たため放射線の量が半分に減る「半減期」が８日と短い放射性ヨウ素は検出されず検
出されたのはすべてセシ ウムだったということです明石理事は「住民の内部被ばく
は事前に予想していたより少なく健康への影響は出ない量だったただ住民への説
明会で も体の中に放射性物質が入ること自体に不安を抱く人もいたので今後も機
会があるごとにさらに細かく説明していきたい」と話しました
福 島県のすべての県民を対象にした健康調査は東京電力福島第一原子力発電所の事故
のあと住民それぞれがどのくらい被ばくしたかを推定し健康への影響 を継続的に
調べるものです全県での調査開始を前に比較的放射線量の高い浪江町飯舘村それ
に川俣町の山木屋地区の住民合わせておよそ２万８０００ 人について先月から先行調査が始まっていますこの調査では対象となった住民全員に震災が起きた３月１１
日以降の行動を問診票に記入してもらいそ れを基に外部からの被ばく線量を推定しま
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すまた対象となった住民の中から幼い子どもやその親など２９００人を選び体の
中に入り込んだ放射性物質に よって被ばくする「内部被ばく」の状況を詳しく調べる
ため尿に含まれる放射性物質の分析やホールボディーカウンターと呼ばれる専用の装
置を使った検 査を行っています２３日の説明会はこの内部被ばくの検査結果を伝え
るため浪江町の住民を対象に開かれたもので福島県は今後飯舘村や川俣町の山
木屋地区の住民に対しても説明会で検査の結果を伝えることにしています福島県は今回の先行調査の結果を基に検査方法などの課題を洗い出し来月か ら全県民を対象
にした「本格調査」へと移行したいとしています
汚染の疑い 出荷２６００頭超
7 月 23 日 19 時 8 分
肉牛の餌の稲わらから放射性セシウムが相次いで検出されている問題でこうした稲わ
らを与えられた疑いのある肉牛が宮城県で新たに９００頭余り出荷されていたことが分
かりこれで全国の出荷頭数は２６００頭余りとなりました
放 射性セシウムを含んだ疑いのある稲わらを肉牛に与えていた畜産農家は宮城県で新
たに３２戸が確認されこれらの農家から９４４頭の牛がすでに出荷されて いたという
ことですＮＨＫのまとめによりますとこうした農家の数は宮城県で６８戸福
島県で２５戸新潟県で１５戸岩手県で１２戸山 形県で９戸秋田県岐
阜県でそれぞれ６戸群馬県と埼玉県でそれぞれ２戸北海道と茨城県栃木県静
岡県三重県島根県でそれぞれ１戸で合 わせて１５の道と県で１５１戸に上ってい
ますまたこうした農家から出荷された肉牛は少なくとも２６４６頭に上り流通先は沖縄県を除く４６都道府県 に広がっていますこのうち牛の肉から国の暫定基準値
を超える放射性セシウムが検出されたのは福島県産のほか栃木岩手宮城秋田の
合わせて５つ の県の牛です
原発 電源トラブルは設定ミス
7 月 23 日 14 時 43 分
２２日東京電力福島第一原子力発電所で３号機と４号機の外部から電気を供給している送電線の装置でトラブルがあり使用済み燃料
プールを冷却する設備などが一時止まったことについて東京電力
はこの装置の設定ミスが原因だったことを明らかにしました
こ のトラブルは２２日午前７時すぎ福島第一原発の３号機と４号機に外部から電気
を供給している送電線の「遮断器」と呼ばれる安全装置が働き一部の設備 への電気の
供給が止まったものですこの影響で３号機の使用済み燃料プールを冷却する設備や汚
染水を浄化する装置が止まりプールの温度は上昇しなかっ たもののすべて復旧するまでにおよそ８時間半がかかりましたこのトラブルについて東京電力は２３日安
全装置の設定ミスが原因であることを明らか にしました安全装置が働く電流の値を
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本来の３分の１に誤って設定してしまったため少ない電流でも遮断してしまったという
ことです東京電力によりま すとこの設定はことし５月に行ったということで作業
手順が明確になっていなかった可能性があるとみて詳しく調べるとしています
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TEPCO to eliminate gangsters from nuclear projects
The operator of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant is stepping up efforts to prevent gangstersfrom earning money in projects for bringing the crisis under control
Tokyo Electric Power Company and 23 affiliates set up a council to eliminate criminalorganizations from such projects
More than 50 people from member companies and the National Police Agency the councilsadvisor attended its first meeting in Tokyo on Friday
The head of the council Satoshi Muto of TEPCO said gangsters may become involved inrebuilding efforts and could work at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant
He said the council will step up cooperation with police to develop measures to stop their participation
Police say criminal syndicates are gaining work in rebuilding projects claiming to be companiesand volunteer groups
A gangster has been arrested in Iwate Prefecture for illegally sending workers to construction sitesfor temporary housing
The council plans to cooperate with police in drawing up contracts and exchanging information oncriminal groups to prevent their participation in projects
Saturday July 23 2011 1341 +0900 (JST)
TEPCO probes Fukushima blackout
Tokyo Electric Power Company is investigating the cause of a sudden power failure at theFukushima Daiichi nuclear plant The blackout halted the cooling of a spent fuel pool for 5 hours
The trouble occurred at around 710 AM on Friday when a circuit breaker malfunctioned on the power feed to the No 3 and 4 reactors
The blackout halted equipment to cool the spent fuel pool for the No 3 reactor
Cooling was restored around 5 hours later by means of an alternative power source
The utility says there has been no major change in the pools temperature of around 30 degreesCelsius
TEPCO says the incident did not cause any radiation leakage as work to inject water and nitrogeninto the reactors continued with the other power source
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The blackout also halted systems to treat decontaminated water flooding the underground levels of plant buildings but the company says these were restored at around 330 PM
The company says all facilities disabled by the incident have now been rebooted
The utility says that although it has installed several external power sources their automatic
switchover functions were not available The company says it will improve the systems
A sudden surge in the external power supply is thought to be behind the failure TEPCO says it islooking into the problem
Friday July 22 2011 2023 +0900 (JST)
Japan utilities push to extend life of nuclear
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Two Japanese utilities moved on July 22 to extend the life of reactors at a pair of central coastalnuclear plants fuelling already fierce debate over energy policy after the worst nuclear accidentsince Chernobyl
Kansai Electric Power Co said it had filed a petition with Japans nuclear regulatory agency to keepthe No 2 reactor at its Mihama nuclear plant running beyond 2012 40 years after it first went intooperation
Chubu Electric Power Co said it had completed plans for building a $13-billion wall to protect itsHamaoka plant from the kind of tsunami that triggered a safety crisis at the Fukushima No 1nuclear power plant in northeast Japan in March
Mihama is on the north coast and Hamakoka on the south coast both southwest of Tokyo
Japans Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency will have to weigh the safety of both plants against anew set of tests at a time when public concern is high over both the risks of nuclear power and the
economic costs of abandoning itJapanese utilities are currently operating 17 of the 54 reactors that had been available before theMarch 11 earthquake and all of those could be shut down by May for maintenance if public worriesover safety continue to stall reactor restarts
Shutting down all of Japans reactors would create a power shortage of up to 6 percent during the power consumption peak in August 2012 and force manufacturers to stockpile inventory in thespring and then ramp up output again in the autumn SMBC Nikko Securities has said
Daiwa Institute of Research estimates that shutting down nuclear power would reduce economicoutput by 25 percent -- equivalent to 14 trillion yen ($178 billion) -- over the next decade
Higher electricity costs would increase costs for corporations and individuals and weigh on bothcapital spending and consumption said Daiwa senior researcher Mikio Mizobota
STRESS TESTS KEY
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Japans planned nuclear stress tests which are loosely modelled on safety assessments by theEuropean Union will examine how well plants could hold up to the kind of massive earthquake andtsunami that cut off power to cooling systems at Fukushima and caused three of its reactors to meltdown
About 80000 residents near the Fukushima plant have been forced to evacuate and may have towait until year-end before a government plan on resettling the area is ready
Earlier this week Japans government suspended shipments of beef from Fukushima as concernsabout radiation contamination has spread from vegetables and seafood to livestock and water
Nagoya-based Chubu which provides power to a major auto production hub in central Japan said itwould aim to complete tsunami defences at Hamaoka in December 2012
The utility shut the Hamaoka plant in mid-May after Prime Minister Naoto Kan called for itsclosure saying the area was at particularly high risk from a major earthquake
Chubu said it plans to build an 18-metre (60 ft) high wall around the nuclear plant The tsunami isthought to have reached as high as 15 metres at the Fukushima plant
The utility said it would also take steps to prevent water from entering the nuclear facility Criticsincluding leading earthquake experts have warned that the plants location at the tip of a sandy peninsula jutting out into the Pacific also puts it at particular risk
Chubu decommissioned the plants No1 and No2 reactors in 2009 after concluding it would costtoo much to make them meet tougher seismic standards It says the three other reactors on the siteare now designed to withstand a magnitude 85 quake
Kansais Mihama nuclear plant in Fukui has faced scrutiny because of the age of its three reactorswhich were completed between 1970 and 1976
In 2004 a pipe broke in the No 3 reactor and sprayed hot water and steam that killed four workersand injured seven In 2003 and 1991 the No 2 reactor had breakdowns in its steam generators
Nuclear critics called on government officials to block an extension for the No 2 reactor when theyreview the application for another 10 years of operation
If there had not been the case of Fukushima the government would probably have given permission without hesitation said Hideyuki Ban co-director of the anti-nuclear Citizens Nuclear Information Center
Now safety should be the top priority
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Hankyu department stores Umeda main outlet in Osakas Kita Ward has switched off lights on the outer walls and dimmed lights inside the store since July (Shigetaka Kodama)
Makoto Yagi president of Kansai Electric Power Co at a news conference in Osaka onJuly 20 (Kenta Sujino)
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The central government on July 20 called on people and businesses across Japan to cut their electric power usage this summer excluding only Hokkaido the northernmost island of Japan andOkinawa the southernmost island where no nuclear power plants are located
The request which comes on the heels of a legal energy-saving order for eastern Japan earlier thismonth will likely deal an additional blow to manufacturers already bracing for tough times ahead
because of a stronger yen and an early hot summer
The government asked businesses and people in the Kansai Hokuriku Chugoku Shikoku andKyushu regions to cut down on electricity this summer amid projected shortfalls in power suppliesresulting from suspended operations of nuclear and thermal power plants
The request came after the government ordered large electricity users in the Kanto and Tohokuregions on July 1 to cut electricity usage this summer by 15 percent from last summers peak useThe regions supply has been in jeopardy after power facilities were disabled by the March 11 GreatEast Japan Earthquake
Power shortfalls are expected to be serious in the Kansai region where a shortage of 62 percent in power supply against peak time use has been forecast
The government called for at least a 10 percent cut between July 25 and Sept 22 in the Kansairegion which is served by Kansai Electric Power Co
Kansai Electrics margin for compliance will be tight since a reactor with a capacity for 1175gigawatts at its Oi plant in Fukui Prefecture was shut down this month due to problems
Chugoku Electric Power Cos supply has also been compromised after its Misumi thermal power plant with a capacity for 1 gigawatt in Shimane Prefecture suspended operations this month due toglitches
In jurisdictions of western Japan served by Kansai Electric Chugoku Electric Hokuriku ElectricPower Co Shikoku Electric Power Co and Kyushu Electric Power Co a combined 12 percent
electricity shortfall is expectedThe government request for saving electricity in these jurisdictions is not mandatory unlike thedecree for the Kanto and Tohoku regions based on the Electric Utilities Industry Law
Except for the Kansai region the government did not include a numerical target for conservation
For the Chubu region in western Japan the government called for voluntary conservation whenPrime Minister Naoto Kan asked Chubu Electric Power Co in May to shut down its Hamaokanuclear power plant in Shizuoka Prefecture citing its vulnerability to earthquakes and tsunami
Japan has a total of 54 commercial reactors supplying about 30 percent of the overall electricity before the March 11 disaster
Meanwhile it is unclear when nuclear reactors that have been offline for regular inspections willresume operation
Coupled with heightened safety concerns among local officials the governments plan to conductsafety tests for all the nations reactors has made it difficult to predict when they will be able torestart
If nuclear reactors that have been offline for maintenance are not restarted all the reactors in thenation will be idle by next spring
It is difficult to respond particularly for businesses that have been mulling a shift (in production)from east to west Yasuchika Hasegawa chairman of Keizai Doyukai (Japan Association of
Corporate Executives) said at a news conference on July 20 They may be feeling You tooKansai Electric
Businesses that have moved their operations elsewhere in the country due to the limited power
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supply may be forced to take additional steps
Analysts said with a stronger Japanese currency--reaching 78-yen levels to the dollar--businesseswill likely be tempted to consider shifting their production overseas while the government continuesto flip-flop over the countrys energy policy after the nuclear crisis
The governments call for saving electricity in wider areas has baffled many manufacturers that
have production bases in the western part of the country or shifted them from other parts of thecountry
At present we are not sure if we can achieve a 10 percent cut for sure said a representative of Mitsubishi Electric Corp
About 40 percent of its production facilities are located in the Kansai region manufacturing anarray of products and equipment from chips for cellphones and electric power facilities to railway-related equipment
Reducing electricity usage is expected to have a major impact on the companys operations theofficial said
The company is considering operating part of its plants late at night and use in-house power generators to conserve electricity
Fujitsu Ltd has already moved 20 percent of its servers for research and development in the Tokyometropolitan area to Hyogo and Toyama prefectures out of concern over power supplied by theTokyo Electric Power Co
The company said that the servers will not be returned to the Tokyo metropolitan area because thestep is partly meant to disperse risk
Fujitsu is looking at new measures to reduce electricity use in response to the governmentsconservation request on July 20
JFE Steel Corp plans to cut production at its steel plants in the cities of Kawasaki and Chiba thissummer bolstering output at its plants in the prefectures of Hiroshima and Okayama instead
But the suspension of operation at Chugoku Electrics Misumi thermal plant this month has raisedfears of power shortages in Hiroshima and Okayama prefectures
Still Eiji Hayashida president of JFE Steel said the company had no choice but to comply with thegovernments request
We should do the utmost we can do to cooperate he said
Rolling blackouts were put in place in the spring in the Kanto region served by TEPCO operator of the crippled Fukushima No 1 nuclear power plant
The ministry plans to avert rolling blackouts in western Japan through conservation effortscontracts with big electricity users that oblige them to cut down usage when the power supply istight and diversion of electricity from other electric utilities
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すまた対象となった住民の中から幼い子どもやその親など２９００人を選び体の
中に入り込んだ放射性物質に よって被ばくする「内部被ばく」の状況を詳しく調べる
ため尿に含まれる放射性物質の分析やホールボディーカウンターと呼ばれる専用の装
置を使った検 査を行っています２３日の説明会はこの内部被ばくの検査結果を伝え
るため浪江町の住民を対象に開かれたもので福島県は今後飯舘村や川俣町の山
木屋地区の住民に対しても説明会で検査の結果を伝えることにしています福島県は今回の先行調査の結果を基に検査方法などの課題を洗い出し来月か ら全県民を対象
にした「本格調査」へと移行したいとしています
汚染の疑い 出荷２６００頭超
7 月 23 日 19 時 8 分
肉牛の餌の稲わらから放射性セシウムが相次いで検出されている問題でこうした稲わ
らを与えられた疑いのある肉牛が宮城県で新たに９００頭余り出荷されていたことが分
かりこれで全国の出荷頭数は２６００頭余りとなりました
放 射性セシウムを含んだ疑いのある稲わらを肉牛に与えていた畜産農家は宮城県で新
たに３２戸が確認されこれらの農家から９４４頭の牛がすでに出荷されて いたという
ことですＮＨＫのまとめによりますとこうした農家の数は宮城県で６８戸福
島県で２５戸新潟県で１５戸岩手県で１２戸山 形県で９戸秋田県岐
阜県でそれぞれ６戸群馬県と埼玉県でそれぞれ２戸北海道と茨城県栃木県静
岡県三重県島根県でそれぞれ１戸で合 わせて１５の道と県で１５１戸に上ってい
ますまたこうした農家から出荷された肉牛は少なくとも２６４６頭に上り流通先は沖縄県を除く４６都道府県 に広がっていますこのうち牛の肉から国の暫定基準値
を超える放射性セシウムが検出されたのは福島県産のほか栃木岩手宮城秋田の
合わせて５つ の県の牛です
原発 電源トラブルは設定ミス
7 月 23 日 14 時 43 分
２２日東京電力福島第一原子力発電所で３号機と４号機の外部から電気を供給している送電線の装置でトラブルがあり使用済み燃料
プールを冷却する設備などが一時止まったことについて東京電力
はこの装置の設定ミスが原因だったことを明らかにしました
こ のトラブルは２２日午前７時すぎ福島第一原発の３号機と４号機に外部から電気
を供給している送電線の「遮断器」と呼ばれる安全装置が働き一部の設備 への電気の
供給が止まったものですこの影響で３号機の使用済み燃料プールを冷却する設備や汚
染水を浄化する装置が止まりプールの温度は上昇しなかっ たもののすべて復旧するまでにおよそ８時間半がかかりましたこのトラブルについて東京電力は２３日安
全装置の設定ミスが原因であることを明らか にしました安全装置が働く電流の値を
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本来の３分の１に誤って設定してしまったため少ない電流でも遮断してしまったという
ことです東京電力によりま すとこの設定はことし５月に行ったということで作業
手順が明確になっていなかった可能性があるとみて詳しく調べるとしています
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TEPCO to eliminate gangsters from nuclear projects
The operator of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant is stepping up efforts to prevent gangstersfrom earning money in projects for bringing the crisis under control
Tokyo Electric Power Company and 23 affiliates set up a council to eliminate criminalorganizations from such projects
More than 50 people from member companies and the National Police Agency the councilsadvisor attended its first meeting in Tokyo on Friday
The head of the council Satoshi Muto of TEPCO said gangsters may become involved inrebuilding efforts and could work at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant
He said the council will step up cooperation with police to develop measures to stop their participation
Police say criminal syndicates are gaining work in rebuilding projects claiming to be companiesand volunteer groups
A gangster has been arrested in Iwate Prefecture for illegally sending workers to construction sitesfor temporary housing
The council plans to cooperate with police in drawing up contracts and exchanging information oncriminal groups to prevent their participation in projects
Saturday July 23 2011 1341 +0900 (JST)
TEPCO probes Fukushima blackout
Tokyo Electric Power Company is investigating the cause of a sudden power failure at theFukushima Daiichi nuclear plant The blackout halted the cooling of a spent fuel pool for 5 hours
The trouble occurred at around 710 AM on Friday when a circuit breaker malfunctioned on the power feed to the No 3 and 4 reactors
The blackout halted equipment to cool the spent fuel pool for the No 3 reactor
Cooling was restored around 5 hours later by means of an alternative power source
The utility says there has been no major change in the pools temperature of around 30 degreesCelsius
TEPCO says the incident did not cause any radiation leakage as work to inject water and nitrogeninto the reactors continued with the other power source
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The blackout also halted systems to treat decontaminated water flooding the underground levels of plant buildings but the company says these were restored at around 330 PM
The company says all facilities disabled by the incident have now been rebooted
The utility says that although it has installed several external power sources their automatic
switchover functions were not available The company says it will improve the systems
A sudden surge in the external power supply is thought to be behind the failure TEPCO says it islooking into the problem
Friday July 22 2011 2023 +0900 (JST)
Japan utilities push to extend life of nuclear
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Two Japanese utilities moved on July 22 to extend the life of reactors at a pair of central coastalnuclear plants fuelling already fierce debate over energy policy after the worst nuclear accidentsince Chernobyl
Kansai Electric Power Co said it had filed a petition with Japans nuclear regulatory agency to keepthe No 2 reactor at its Mihama nuclear plant running beyond 2012 40 years after it first went intooperation
Chubu Electric Power Co said it had completed plans for building a $13-billion wall to protect itsHamaoka plant from the kind of tsunami that triggered a safety crisis at the Fukushima No 1nuclear power plant in northeast Japan in March
Mihama is on the north coast and Hamakoka on the south coast both southwest of Tokyo
Japans Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency will have to weigh the safety of both plants against anew set of tests at a time when public concern is high over both the risks of nuclear power and the
economic costs of abandoning itJapanese utilities are currently operating 17 of the 54 reactors that had been available before theMarch 11 earthquake and all of those could be shut down by May for maintenance if public worriesover safety continue to stall reactor restarts
Shutting down all of Japans reactors would create a power shortage of up to 6 percent during the power consumption peak in August 2012 and force manufacturers to stockpile inventory in thespring and then ramp up output again in the autumn SMBC Nikko Securities has said
Daiwa Institute of Research estimates that shutting down nuclear power would reduce economicoutput by 25 percent -- equivalent to 14 trillion yen ($178 billion) -- over the next decade
Higher electricity costs would increase costs for corporations and individuals and weigh on bothcapital spending and consumption said Daiwa senior researcher Mikio Mizobota
STRESS TESTS KEY
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Japans planned nuclear stress tests which are loosely modelled on safety assessments by theEuropean Union will examine how well plants could hold up to the kind of massive earthquake andtsunami that cut off power to cooling systems at Fukushima and caused three of its reactors to meltdown
About 80000 residents near the Fukushima plant have been forced to evacuate and may have towait until year-end before a government plan on resettling the area is ready
Earlier this week Japans government suspended shipments of beef from Fukushima as concernsabout radiation contamination has spread from vegetables and seafood to livestock and water
Nagoya-based Chubu which provides power to a major auto production hub in central Japan said itwould aim to complete tsunami defences at Hamaoka in December 2012
The utility shut the Hamaoka plant in mid-May after Prime Minister Naoto Kan called for itsclosure saying the area was at particularly high risk from a major earthquake
Chubu said it plans to build an 18-metre (60 ft) high wall around the nuclear plant The tsunami isthought to have reached as high as 15 metres at the Fukushima plant
The utility said it would also take steps to prevent water from entering the nuclear facility Criticsincluding leading earthquake experts have warned that the plants location at the tip of a sandy peninsula jutting out into the Pacific also puts it at particular risk
Chubu decommissioned the plants No1 and No2 reactors in 2009 after concluding it would costtoo much to make them meet tougher seismic standards It says the three other reactors on the siteare now designed to withstand a magnitude 85 quake
Kansais Mihama nuclear plant in Fukui has faced scrutiny because of the age of its three reactorswhich were completed between 1970 and 1976
In 2004 a pipe broke in the No 3 reactor and sprayed hot water and steam that killed four workersand injured seven In 2003 and 1991 the No 2 reactor had breakdowns in its steam generators
Nuclear critics called on government officials to block an extension for the No 2 reactor when theyreview the application for another 10 years of operation
If there had not been the case of Fukushima the government would probably have given permission without hesitation said Hideyuki Ban co-director of the anti-nuclear Citizens Nuclear Information Center
Now safety should be the top priority
Government asks everyone to save on the juice20110722
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Hankyu department stores Umeda main outlet in Osakas Kita Ward has switched off lights on the outer walls and dimmed lights inside the store since July (Shigetaka Kodama)
Makoto Yagi president of Kansai Electric Power Co at a news conference in Osaka onJuly 20 (Kenta Sujino)
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The central government on July 20 called on people and businesses across Japan to cut their electric power usage this summer excluding only Hokkaido the northernmost island of Japan andOkinawa the southernmost island where no nuclear power plants are located
The request which comes on the heels of a legal energy-saving order for eastern Japan earlier thismonth will likely deal an additional blow to manufacturers already bracing for tough times ahead
because of a stronger yen and an early hot summer
The government asked businesses and people in the Kansai Hokuriku Chugoku Shikoku andKyushu regions to cut down on electricity this summer amid projected shortfalls in power suppliesresulting from suspended operations of nuclear and thermal power plants
The request came after the government ordered large electricity users in the Kanto and Tohokuregions on July 1 to cut electricity usage this summer by 15 percent from last summers peak useThe regions supply has been in jeopardy after power facilities were disabled by the March 11 GreatEast Japan Earthquake
Power shortfalls are expected to be serious in the Kansai region where a shortage of 62 percent in power supply against peak time use has been forecast
The government called for at least a 10 percent cut between July 25 and Sept 22 in the Kansairegion which is served by Kansai Electric Power Co
Kansai Electrics margin for compliance will be tight since a reactor with a capacity for 1175gigawatts at its Oi plant in Fukui Prefecture was shut down this month due to problems
Chugoku Electric Power Cos supply has also been compromised after its Misumi thermal power plant with a capacity for 1 gigawatt in Shimane Prefecture suspended operations this month due toglitches
In jurisdictions of western Japan served by Kansai Electric Chugoku Electric Hokuriku ElectricPower Co Shikoku Electric Power Co and Kyushu Electric Power Co a combined 12 percent
electricity shortfall is expectedThe government request for saving electricity in these jurisdictions is not mandatory unlike thedecree for the Kanto and Tohoku regions based on the Electric Utilities Industry Law
Except for the Kansai region the government did not include a numerical target for conservation
For the Chubu region in western Japan the government called for voluntary conservation whenPrime Minister Naoto Kan asked Chubu Electric Power Co in May to shut down its Hamaokanuclear power plant in Shizuoka Prefecture citing its vulnerability to earthquakes and tsunami
Japan has a total of 54 commercial reactors supplying about 30 percent of the overall electricity before the March 11 disaster
Meanwhile it is unclear when nuclear reactors that have been offline for regular inspections willresume operation
Coupled with heightened safety concerns among local officials the governments plan to conductsafety tests for all the nations reactors has made it difficult to predict when they will be able torestart
If nuclear reactors that have been offline for maintenance are not restarted all the reactors in thenation will be idle by next spring
It is difficult to respond particularly for businesses that have been mulling a shift (in production)from east to west Yasuchika Hasegawa chairman of Keizai Doyukai (Japan Association of
Corporate Executives) said at a news conference on July 20 They may be feeling You tooKansai Electric
Businesses that have moved their operations elsewhere in the country due to the limited power
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supply may be forced to take additional steps
Analysts said with a stronger Japanese currency--reaching 78-yen levels to the dollar--businesseswill likely be tempted to consider shifting their production overseas while the government continuesto flip-flop over the countrys energy policy after the nuclear crisis
The governments call for saving electricity in wider areas has baffled many manufacturers that
have production bases in the western part of the country or shifted them from other parts of thecountry
At present we are not sure if we can achieve a 10 percent cut for sure said a representative of Mitsubishi Electric Corp
About 40 percent of its production facilities are located in the Kansai region manufacturing anarray of products and equipment from chips for cellphones and electric power facilities to railway-related equipment
Reducing electricity usage is expected to have a major impact on the companys operations theofficial said
The company is considering operating part of its plants late at night and use in-house power generators to conserve electricity
Fujitsu Ltd has already moved 20 percent of its servers for research and development in the Tokyometropolitan area to Hyogo and Toyama prefectures out of concern over power supplied by theTokyo Electric Power Co
The company said that the servers will not be returned to the Tokyo metropolitan area because thestep is partly meant to disperse risk
Fujitsu is looking at new measures to reduce electricity use in response to the governmentsconservation request on July 20
JFE Steel Corp plans to cut production at its steel plants in the cities of Kawasaki and Chiba thissummer bolstering output at its plants in the prefectures of Hiroshima and Okayama instead
But the suspension of operation at Chugoku Electrics Misumi thermal plant this month has raisedfears of power shortages in Hiroshima and Okayama prefectures
Still Eiji Hayashida president of JFE Steel said the company had no choice but to comply with thegovernments request
We should do the utmost we can do to cooperate he said
Rolling blackouts were put in place in the spring in the Kanto region served by TEPCO operator of the crippled Fukushima No 1 nuclear power plant
The ministry plans to avert rolling blackouts in western Japan through conservation effortscontracts with big electricity users that oblige them to cut down usage when the power supply istight and diversion of electricity from other electric utilities
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TEPCO to eliminate gangsters from nuclear projects
The operator of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant is stepping up efforts to prevent gangstersfrom earning money in projects for bringing the crisis under control
Tokyo Electric Power Company and 23 affiliates set up a council to eliminate criminalorganizations from such projects
More than 50 people from member companies and the National Police Agency the councilsadvisor attended its first meeting in Tokyo on Friday
The head of the council Satoshi Muto of TEPCO said gangsters may become involved inrebuilding efforts and could work at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant
He said the council will step up cooperation with police to develop measures to stop their participation
Police say criminal syndicates are gaining work in rebuilding projects claiming to be companiesand volunteer groups
A gangster has been arrested in Iwate Prefecture for illegally sending workers to construction sitesfor temporary housing
The council plans to cooperate with police in drawing up contracts and exchanging information oncriminal groups to prevent their participation in projects
Saturday July 23 2011 1341 +0900 (JST)
TEPCO probes Fukushima blackout
Tokyo Electric Power Company is investigating the cause of a sudden power failure at theFukushima Daiichi nuclear plant The blackout halted the cooling of a spent fuel pool for 5 hours
The trouble occurred at around 710 AM on Friday when a circuit breaker malfunctioned on the power feed to the No 3 and 4 reactors
The blackout halted equipment to cool the spent fuel pool for the No 3 reactor
Cooling was restored around 5 hours later by means of an alternative power source
The utility says there has been no major change in the pools temperature of around 30 degreesCelsius
TEPCO says the incident did not cause any radiation leakage as work to inject water and nitrogeninto the reactors continued with the other power source
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The blackout also halted systems to treat decontaminated water flooding the underground levels of plant buildings but the company says these were restored at around 330 PM
The company says all facilities disabled by the incident have now been rebooted
The utility says that although it has installed several external power sources their automatic
switchover functions were not available The company says it will improve the systems
A sudden surge in the external power supply is thought to be behind the failure TEPCO says it islooking into the problem
Friday July 22 2011 2023 +0900 (JST)
Japan utilities push to extend life of nuclear
plantsREUTERS
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Two Japanese utilities moved on July 22 to extend the life of reactors at a pair of central coastalnuclear plants fuelling already fierce debate over energy policy after the worst nuclear accidentsince Chernobyl
Kansai Electric Power Co said it had filed a petition with Japans nuclear regulatory agency to keepthe No 2 reactor at its Mihama nuclear plant running beyond 2012 40 years after it first went intooperation
Chubu Electric Power Co said it had completed plans for building a $13-billion wall to protect itsHamaoka plant from the kind of tsunami that triggered a safety crisis at the Fukushima No 1nuclear power plant in northeast Japan in March
Mihama is on the north coast and Hamakoka on the south coast both southwest of Tokyo
Japans Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency will have to weigh the safety of both plants against anew set of tests at a time when public concern is high over both the risks of nuclear power and the
economic costs of abandoning itJapanese utilities are currently operating 17 of the 54 reactors that had been available before theMarch 11 earthquake and all of those could be shut down by May for maintenance if public worriesover safety continue to stall reactor restarts
Shutting down all of Japans reactors would create a power shortage of up to 6 percent during the power consumption peak in August 2012 and force manufacturers to stockpile inventory in thespring and then ramp up output again in the autumn SMBC Nikko Securities has said
Daiwa Institute of Research estimates that shutting down nuclear power would reduce economicoutput by 25 percent -- equivalent to 14 trillion yen ($178 billion) -- over the next decade
Higher electricity costs would increase costs for corporations and individuals and weigh on bothcapital spending and consumption said Daiwa senior researcher Mikio Mizobota
STRESS TESTS KEY
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Japans planned nuclear stress tests which are loosely modelled on safety assessments by theEuropean Union will examine how well plants could hold up to the kind of massive earthquake andtsunami that cut off power to cooling systems at Fukushima and caused three of its reactors to meltdown
About 80000 residents near the Fukushima plant have been forced to evacuate and may have towait until year-end before a government plan on resettling the area is ready
Earlier this week Japans government suspended shipments of beef from Fukushima as concernsabout radiation contamination has spread from vegetables and seafood to livestock and water
Nagoya-based Chubu which provides power to a major auto production hub in central Japan said itwould aim to complete tsunami defences at Hamaoka in December 2012
The utility shut the Hamaoka plant in mid-May after Prime Minister Naoto Kan called for itsclosure saying the area was at particularly high risk from a major earthquake
Chubu said it plans to build an 18-metre (60 ft) high wall around the nuclear plant The tsunami isthought to have reached as high as 15 metres at the Fukushima plant
The utility said it would also take steps to prevent water from entering the nuclear facility Criticsincluding leading earthquake experts have warned that the plants location at the tip of a sandy peninsula jutting out into the Pacific also puts it at particular risk
Chubu decommissioned the plants No1 and No2 reactors in 2009 after concluding it would costtoo much to make them meet tougher seismic standards It says the three other reactors on the siteare now designed to withstand a magnitude 85 quake
Kansais Mihama nuclear plant in Fukui has faced scrutiny because of the age of its three reactorswhich were completed between 1970 and 1976
In 2004 a pipe broke in the No 3 reactor and sprayed hot water and steam that killed four workersand injured seven In 2003 and 1991 the No 2 reactor had breakdowns in its steam generators
Nuclear critics called on government officials to block an extension for the No 2 reactor when theyreview the application for another 10 years of operation
If there had not been the case of Fukushima the government would probably have given permission without hesitation said Hideyuki Ban co-director of the anti-nuclear Citizens Nuclear Information Center
Now safety should be the top priority
Government asks everyone to save on the juice20110722
Share Article
Hankyu department stores Umeda main outlet in Osakas Kita Ward has switched off lights on the outer walls and dimmed lights inside the store since July (Shigetaka Kodama)
Makoto Yagi president of Kansai Electric Power Co at a news conference in Osaka onJuly 20 (Kenta Sujino)
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The central government on July 20 called on people and businesses across Japan to cut their electric power usage this summer excluding only Hokkaido the northernmost island of Japan andOkinawa the southernmost island where no nuclear power plants are located
The request which comes on the heels of a legal energy-saving order for eastern Japan earlier thismonth will likely deal an additional blow to manufacturers already bracing for tough times ahead
because of a stronger yen and an early hot summer
The government asked businesses and people in the Kansai Hokuriku Chugoku Shikoku andKyushu regions to cut down on electricity this summer amid projected shortfalls in power suppliesresulting from suspended operations of nuclear and thermal power plants
The request came after the government ordered large electricity users in the Kanto and Tohokuregions on July 1 to cut electricity usage this summer by 15 percent from last summers peak useThe regions supply has been in jeopardy after power facilities were disabled by the March 11 GreatEast Japan Earthquake
Power shortfalls are expected to be serious in the Kansai region where a shortage of 62 percent in power supply against peak time use has been forecast
The government called for at least a 10 percent cut between July 25 and Sept 22 in the Kansairegion which is served by Kansai Electric Power Co
Kansai Electrics margin for compliance will be tight since a reactor with a capacity for 1175gigawatts at its Oi plant in Fukui Prefecture was shut down this month due to problems
Chugoku Electric Power Cos supply has also been compromised after its Misumi thermal power plant with a capacity for 1 gigawatt in Shimane Prefecture suspended operations this month due toglitches
In jurisdictions of western Japan served by Kansai Electric Chugoku Electric Hokuriku ElectricPower Co Shikoku Electric Power Co and Kyushu Electric Power Co a combined 12 percent
electricity shortfall is expectedThe government request for saving electricity in these jurisdictions is not mandatory unlike thedecree for the Kanto and Tohoku regions based on the Electric Utilities Industry Law
Except for the Kansai region the government did not include a numerical target for conservation
For the Chubu region in western Japan the government called for voluntary conservation whenPrime Minister Naoto Kan asked Chubu Electric Power Co in May to shut down its Hamaokanuclear power plant in Shizuoka Prefecture citing its vulnerability to earthquakes and tsunami
Japan has a total of 54 commercial reactors supplying about 30 percent of the overall electricity before the March 11 disaster
Meanwhile it is unclear when nuclear reactors that have been offline for regular inspections willresume operation
Coupled with heightened safety concerns among local officials the governments plan to conductsafety tests for all the nations reactors has made it difficult to predict when they will be able torestart
If nuclear reactors that have been offline for maintenance are not restarted all the reactors in thenation will be idle by next spring
It is difficult to respond particularly for businesses that have been mulling a shift (in production)from east to west Yasuchika Hasegawa chairman of Keizai Doyukai (Japan Association of
Corporate Executives) said at a news conference on July 20 They may be feeling You tooKansai Electric
Businesses that have moved their operations elsewhere in the country due to the limited power
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supply may be forced to take additional steps
Analysts said with a stronger Japanese currency--reaching 78-yen levels to the dollar--businesseswill likely be tempted to consider shifting their production overseas while the government continuesto flip-flop over the countrys energy policy after the nuclear crisis
The governments call for saving electricity in wider areas has baffled many manufacturers that
have production bases in the western part of the country or shifted them from other parts of thecountry
At present we are not sure if we can achieve a 10 percent cut for sure said a representative of Mitsubishi Electric Corp
About 40 percent of its production facilities are located in the Kansai region manufacturing anarray of products and equipment from chips for cellphones and electric power facilities to railway-related equipment
Reducing electricity usage is expected to have a major impact on the companys operations theofficial said
The company is considering operating part of its plants late at night and use in-house power generators to conserve electricity
Fujitsu Ltd has already moved 20 percent of its servers for research and development in the Tokyometropolitan area to Hyogo and Toyama prefectures out of concern over power supplied by theTokyo Electric Power Co
The company said that the servers will not be returned to the Tokyo metropolitan area because thestep is partly meant to disperse risk
Fujitsu is looking at new measures to reduce electricity use in response to the governmentsconservation request on July 20
JFE Steel Corp plans to cut production at its steel plants in the cities of Kawasaki and Chiba thissummer bolstering output at its plants in the prefectures of Hiroshima and Okayama instead
But the suspension of operation at Chugoku Electrics Misumi thermal plant this month has raisedfears of power shortages in Hiroshima and Okayama prefectures
Still Eiji Hayashida president of JFE Steel said the company had no choice but to comply with thegovernments request
We should do the utmost we can do to cooperate he said
Rolling blackouts were put in place in the spring in the Kanto region served by TEPCO operator of the crippled Fukushima No 1 nuclear power plant
The ministry plans to avert rolling blackouts in western Japan through conservation effortscontracts with big electricity users that oblige them to cut down usage when the power supply istight and diversion of electricity from other electric utilities
832019 news july 23
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The blackout also halted systems to treat decontaminated water flooding the underground levels of plant buildings but the company says these were restored at around 330 PM
The company says all facilities disabled by the incident have now been rebooted
The utility says that although it has installed several external power sources their automatic
switchover functions were not available The company says it will improve the systems
A sudden surge in the external power supply is thought to be behind the failure TEPCO says it islooking into the problem
Friday July 22 2011 2023 +0900 (JST)
Japan utilities push to extend life of nuclear
plantsREUTERS
20110723
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Two Japanese utilities moved on July 22 to extend the life of reactors at a pair of central coastalnuclear plants fuelling already fierce debate over energy policy after the worst nuclear accidentsince Chernobyl
Kansai Electric Power Co said it had filed a petition with Japans nuclear regulatory agency to keepthe No 2 reactor at its Mihama nuclear plant running beyond 2012 40 years after it first went intooperation
Chubu Electric Power Co said it had completed plans for building a $13-billion wall to protect itsHamaoka plant from the kind of tsunami that triggered a safety crisis at the Fukushima No 1nuclear power plant in northeast Japan in March
Mihama is on the north coast and Hamakoka on the south coast both southwest of Tokyo
Japans Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency will have to weigh the safety of both plants against anew set of tests at a time when public concern is high over both the risks of nuclear power and the
economic costs of abandoning itJapanese utilities are currently operating 17 of the 54 reactors that had been available before theMarch 11 earthquake and all of those could be shut down by May for maintenance if public worriesover safety continue to stall reactor restarts
Shutting down all of Japans reactors would create a power shortage of up to 6 percent during the power consumption peak in August 2012 and force manufacturers to stockpile inventory in thespring and then ramp up output again in the autumn SMBC Nikko Securities has said
Daiwa Institute of Research estimates that shutting down nuclear power would reduce economicoutput by 25 percent -- equivalent to 14 trillion yen ($178 billion) -- over the next decade
Higher electricity costs would increase costs for corporations and individuals and weigh on bothcapital spending and consumption said Daiwa senior researcher Mikio Mizobota
STRESS TESTS KEY
832019 news july 23
httpslidepdfcomreaderfullnews-july-23 57
Japans planned nuclear stress tests which are loosely modelled on safety assessments by theEuropean Union will examine how well plants could hold up to the kind of massive earthquake andtsunami that cut off power to cooling systems at Fukushima and caused three of its reactors to meltdown
About 80000 residents near the Fukushima plant have been forced to evacuate and may have towait until year-end before a government plan on resettling the area is ready
Earlier this week Japans government suspended shipments of beef from Fukushima as concernsabout radiation contamination has spread from vegetables and seafood to livestock and water
Nagoya-based Chubu which provides power to a major auto production hub in central Japan said itwould aim to complete tsunami defences at Hamaoka in December 2012
The utility shut the Hamaoka plant in mid-May after Prime Minister Naoto Kan called for itsclosure saying the area was at particularly high risk from a major earthquake
Chubu said it plans to build an 18-metre (60 ft) high wall around the nuclear plant The tsunami isthought to have reached as high as 15 metres at the Fukushima plant
The utility said it would also take steps to prevent water from entering the nuclear facility Criticsincluding leading earthquake experts have warned that the plants location at the tip of a sandy peninsula jutting out into the Pacific also puts it at particular risk
Chubu decommissioned the plants No1 and No2 reactors in 2009 after concluding it would costtoo much to make them meet tougher seismic standards It says the three other reactors on the siteare now designed to withstand a magnitude 85 quake
Kansais Mihama nuclear plant in Fukui has faced scrutiny because of the age of its three reactorswhich were completed between 1970 and 1976
In 2004 a pipe broke in the No 3 reactor and sprayed hot water and steam that killed four workersand injured seven In 2003 and 1991 the No 2 reactor had breakdowns in its steam generators
Nuclear critics called on government officials to block an extension for the No 2 reactor when theyreview the application for another 10 years of operation
If there had not been the case of Fukushima the government would probably have given permission without hesitation said Hideyuki Ban co-director of the anti-nuclear Citizens Nuclear Information Center
Now safety should be the top priority
Government asks everyone to save on the juice20110722
Share Article
Hankyu department stores Umeda main outlet in Osakas Kita Ward has switched off lights on the outer walls and dimmed lights inside the store since July (Shigetaka Kodama)
Makoto Yagi president of Kansai Electric Power Co at a news conference in Osaka onJuly 20 (Kenta Sujino)
832019 news july 23
httpslidepdfcomreaderfullnews-july-23 67
The central government on July 20 called on people and businesses across Japan to cut their electric power usage this summer excluding only Hokkaido the northernmost island of Japan andOkinawa the southernmost island where no nuclear power plants are located
The request which comes on the heels of a legal energy-saving order for eastern Japan earlier thismonth will likely deal an additional blow to manufacturers already bracing for tough times ahead
because of a stronger yen and an early hot summer
The government asked businesses and people in the Kansai Hokuriku Chugoku Shikoku andKyushu regions to cut down on electricity this summer amid projected shortfalls in power suppliesresulting from suspended operations of nuclear and thermal power plants
The request came after the government ordered large electricity users in the Kanto and Tohokuregions on July 1 to cut electricity usage this summer by 15 percent from last summers peak useThe regions supply has been in jeopardy after power facilities were disabled by the March 11 GreatEast Japan Earthquake
Power shortfalls are expected to be serious in the Kansai region where a shortage of 62 percent in power supply against peak time use has been forecast
The government called for at least a 10 percent cut between July 25 and Sept 22 in the Kansairegion which is served by Kansai Electric Power Co
Kansai Electrics margin for compliance will be tight since a reactor with a capacity for 1175gigawatts at its Oi plant in Fukui Prefecture was shut down this month due to problems
Chugoku Electric Power Cos supply has also been compromised after its Misumi thermal power plant with a capacity for 1 gigawatt in Shimane Prefecture suspended operations this month due toglitches
In jurisdictions of western Japan served by Kansai Electric Chugoku Electric Hokuriku ElectricPower Co Shikoku Electric Power Co and Kyushu Electric Power Co a combined 12 percent
electricity shortfall is expectedThe government request for saving electricity in these jurisdictions is not mandatory unlike thedecree for the Kanto and Tohoku regions based on the Electric Utilities Industry Law
Except for the Kansai region the government did not include a numerical target for conservation
For the Chubu region in western Japan the government called for voluntary conservation whenPrime Minister Naoto Kan asked Chubu Electric Power Co in May to shut down its Hamaokanuclear power plant in Shizuoka Prefecture citing its vulnerability to earthquakes and tsunami
Japan has a total of 54 commercial reactors supplying about 30 percent of the overall electricity before the March 11 disaster
Meanwhile it is unclear when nuclear reactors that have been offline for regular inspections willresume operation
Coupled with heightened safety concerns among local officials the governments plan to conductsafety tests for all the nations reactors has made it difficult to predict when they will be able torestart
If nuclear reactors that have been offline for maintenance are not restarted all the reactors in thenation will be idle by next spring
It is difficult to respond particularly for businesses that have been mulling a shift (in production)from east to west Yasuchika Hasegawa chairman of Keizai Doyukai (Japan Association of
Corporate Executives) said at a news conference on July 20 They may be feeling You tooKansai Electric
Businesses that have moved their operations elsewhere in the country due to the limited power
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supply may be forced to take additional steps
Analysts said with a stronger Japanese currency--reaching 78-yen levels to the dollar--businesseswill likely be tempted to consider shifting their production overseas while the government continuesto flip-flop over the countrys energy policy after the nuclear crisis
The governments call for saving electricity in wider areas has baffled many manufacturers that
have production bases in the western part of the country or shifted them from other parts of thecountry
At present we are not sure if we can achieve a 10 percent cut for sure said a representative of Mitsubishi Electric Corp
About 40 percent of its production facilities are located in the Kansai region manufacturing anarray of products and equipment from chips for cellphones and electric power facilities to railway-related equipment
Reducing electricity usage is expected to have a major impact on the companys operations theofficial said
The company is considering operating part of its plants late at night and use in-house power generators to conserve electricity
Fujitsu Ltd has already moved 20 percent of its servers for research and development in the Tokyometropolitan area to Hyogo and Toyama prefectures out of concern over power supplied by theTokyo Electric Power Co
The company said that the servers will not be returned to the Tokyo metropolitan area because thestep is partly meant to disperse risk
Fujitsu is looking at new measures to reduce electricity use in response to the governmentsconservation request on July 20
JFE Steel Corp plans to cut production at its steel plants in the cities of Kawasaki and Chiba thissummer bolstering output at its plants in the prefectures of Hiroshima and Okayama instead
But the suspension of operation at Chugoku Electrics Misumi thermal plant this month has raisedfears of power shortages in Hiroshima and Okayama prefectures
Still Eiji Hayashida president of JFE Steel said the company had no choice but to comply with thegovernments request
We should do the utmost we can do to cooperate he said
Rolling blackouts were put in place in the spring in the Kanto region served by TEPCO operator of the crippled Fukushima No 1 nuclear power plant
The ministry plans to avert rolling blackouts in western Japan through conservation effortscontracts with big electricity users that oblige them to cut down usage when the power supply istight and diversion of electricity from other electric utilities
832019 news july 23
httpslidepdfcomreaderfullnews-july-23 57
Japans planned nuclear stress tests which are loosely modelled on safety assessments by theEuropean Union will examine how well plants could hold up to the kind of massive earthquake andtsunami that cut off power to cooling systems at Fukushima and caused three of its reactors to meltdown
About 80000 residents near the Fukushima plant have been forced to evacuate and may have towait until year-end before a government plan on resettling the area is ready
Earlier this week Japans government suspended shipments of beef from Fukushima as concernsabout radiation contamination has spread from vegetables and seafood to livestock and water
Nagoya-based Chubu which provides power to a major auto production hub in central Japan said itwould aim to complete tsunami defences at Hamaoka in December 2012
The utility shut the Hamaoka plant in mid-May after Prime Minister Naoto Kan called for itsclosure saying the area was at particularly high risk from a major earthquake
Chubu said it plans to build an 18-metre (60 ft) high wall around the nuclear plant The tsunami isthought to have reached as high as 15 metres at the Fukushima plant
The utility said it would also take steps to prevent water from entering the nuclear facility Criticsincluding leading earthquake experts have warned that the plants location at the tip of a sandy peninsula jutting out into the Pacific also puts it at particular risk
Chubu decommissioned the plants No1 and No2 reactors in 2009 after concluding it would costtoo much to make them meet tougher seismic standards It says the three other reactors on the siteare now designed to withstand a magnitude 85 quake
Kansais Mihama nuclear plant in Fukui has faced scrutiny because of the age of its three reactorswhich were completed between 1970 and 1976
In 2004 a pipe broke in the No 3 reactor and sprayed hot water and steam that killed four workersand injured seven In 2003 and 1991 the No 2 reactor had breakdowns in its steam generators
Nuclear critics called on government officials to block an extension for the No 2 reactor when theyreview the application for another 10 years of operation
If there had not been the case of Fukushima the government would probably have given permission without hesitation said Hideyuki Ban co-director of the anti-nuclear Citizens Nuclear Information Center
Now safety should be the top priority
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Hankyu department stores Umeda main outlet in Osakas Kita Ward has switched off lights on the outer walls and dimmed lights inside the store since July (Shigetaka Kodama)
Makoto Yagi president of Kansai Electric Power Co at a news conference in Osaka onJuly 20 (Kenta Sujino)
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The central government on July 20 called on people and businesses across Japan to cut their electric power usage this summer excluding only Hokkaido the northernmost island of Japan andOkinawa the southernmost island where no nuclear power plants are located
The request which comes on the heels of a legal energy-saving order for eastern Japan earlier thismonth will likely deal an additional blow to manufacturers already bracing for tough times ahead
because of a stronger yen and an early hot summer
The government asked businesses and people in the Kansai Hokuriku Chugoku Shikoku andKyushu regions to cut down on electricity this summer amid projected shortfalls in power suppliesresulting from suspended operations of nuclear and thermal power plants
The request came after the government ordered large electricity users in the Kanto and Tohokuregions on July 1 to cut electricity usage this summer by 15 percent from last summers peak useThe regions supply has been in jeopardy after power facilities were disabled by the March 11 GreatEast Japan Earthquake
Power shortfalls are expected to be serious in the Kansai region where a shortage of 62 percent in power supply against peak time use has been forecast
The government called for at least a 10 percent cut between July 25 and Sept 22 in the Kansairegion which is served by Kansai Electric Power Co
Kansai Electrics margin for compliance will be tight since a reactor with a capacity for 1175gigawatts at its Oi plant in Fukui Prefecture was shut down this month due to problems
Chugoku Electric Power Cos supply has also been compromised after its Misumi thermal power plant with a capacity for 1 gigawatt in Shimane Prefecture suspended operations this month due toglitches
In jurisdictions of western Japan served by Kansai Electric Chugoku Electric Hokuriku ElectricPower Co Shikoku Electric Power Co and Kyushu Electric Power Co a combined 12 percent
electricity shortfall is expectedThe government request for saving electricity in these jurisdictions is not mandatory unlike thedecree for the Kanto and Tohoku regions based on the Electric Utilities Industry Law
Except for the Kansai region the government did not include a numerical target for conservation
For the Chubu region in western Japan the government called for voluntary conservation whenPrime Minister Naoto Kan asked Chubu Electric Power Co in May to shut down its Hamaokanuclear power plant in Shizuoka Prefecture citing its vulnerability to earthquakes and tsunami
Japan has a total of 54 commercial reactors supplying about 30 percent of the overall electricity before the March 11 disaster
Meanwhile it is unclear when nuclear reactors that have been offline for regular inspections willresume operation
Coupled with heightened safety concerns among local officials the governments plan to conductsafety tests for all the nations reactors has made it difficult to predict when they will be able torestart
If nuclear reactors that have been offline for maintenance are not restarted all the reactors in thenation will be idle by next spring
It is difficult to respond particularly for businesses that have been mulling a shift (in production)from east to west Yasuchika Hasegawa chairman of Keizai Doyukai (Japan Association of
Corporate Executives) said at a news conference on July 20 They may be feeling You tooKansai Electric
Businesses that have moved their operations elsewhere in the country due to the limited power
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supply may be forced to take additional steps
Analysts said with a stronger Japanese currency--reaching 78-yen levels to the dollar--businesseswill likely be tempted to consider shifting their production overseas while the government continuesto flip-flop over the countrys energy policy after the nuclear crisis
The governments call for saving electricity in wider areas has baffled many manufacturers that
have production bases in the western part of the country or shifted them from other parts of thecountry
At present we are not sure if we can achieve a 10 percent cut for sure said a representative of Mitsubishi Electric Corp
About 40 percent of its production facilities are located in the Kansai region manufacturing anarray of products and equipment from chips for cellphones and electric power facilities to railway-related equipment
Reducing electricity usage is expected to have a major impact on the companys operations theofficial said
The company is considering operating part of its plants late at night and use in-house power generators to conserve electricity
Fujitsu Ltd has already moved 20 percent of its servers for research and development in the Tokyometropolitan area to Hyogo and Toyama prefectures out of concern over power supplied by theTokyo Electric Power Co
The company said that the servers will not be returned to the Tokyo metropolitan area because thestep is partly meant to disperse risk
Fujitsu is looking at new measures to reduce electricity use in response to the governmentsconservation request on July 20
JFE Steel Corp plans to cut production at its steel plants in the cities of Kawasaki and Chiba thissummer bolstering output at its plants in the prefectures of Hiroshima and Okayama instead
But the suspension of operation at Chugoku Electrics Misumi thermal plant this month has raisedfears of power shortages in Hiroshima and Okayama prefectures
Still Eiji Hayashida president of JFE Steel said the company had no choice but to comply with thegovernments request
We should do the utmost we can do to cooperate he said
Rolling blackouts were put in place in the spring in the Kanto region served by TEPCO operator of the crippled Fukushima No 1 nuclear power plant
The ministry plans to avert rolling blackouts in western Japan through conservation effortscontracts with big electricity users that oblige them to cut down usage when the power supply istight and diversion of electricity from other electric utilities
832019 news july 23
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The central government on July 20 called on people and businesses across Japan to cut their electric power usage this summer excluding only Hokkaido the northernmost island of Japan andOkinawa the southernmost island where no nuclear power plants are located
The request which comes on the heels of a legal energy-saving order for eastern Japan earlier thismonth will likely deal an additional blow to manufacturers already bracing for tough times ahead
because of a stronger yen and an early hot summer
The government asked businesses and people in the Kansai Hokuriku Chugoku Shikoku andKyushu regions to cut down on electricity this summer amid projected shortfalls in power suppliesresulting from suspended operations of nuclear and thermal power plants
The request came after the government ordered large electricity users in the Kanto and Tohokuregions on July 1 to cut electricity usage this summer by 15 percent from last summers peak useThe regions supply has been in jeopardy after power facilities were disabled by the March 11 GreatEast Japan Earthquake
Power shortfalls are expected to be serious in the Kansai region where a shortage of 62 percent in power supply against peak time use has been forecast
The government called for at least a 10 percent cut between July 25 and Sept 22 in the Kansairegion which is served by Kansai Electric Power Co
Kansai Electrics margin for compliance will be tight since a reactor with a capacity for 1175gigawatts at its Oi plant in Fukui Prefecture was shut down this month due to problems
Chugoku Electric Power Cos supply has also been compromised after its Misumi thermal power plant with a capacity for 1 gigawatt in Shimane Prefecture suspended operations this month due toglitches
In jurisdictions of western Japan served by Kansai Electric Chugoku Electric Hokuriku ElectricPower Co Shikoku Electric Power Co and Kyushu Electric Power Co a combined 12 percent
electricity shortfall is expectedThe government request for saving electricity in these jurisdictions is not mandatory unlike thedecree for the Kanto and Tohoku regions based on the Electric Utilities Industry Law
Except for the Kansai region the government did not include a numerical target for conservation
For the Chubu region in western Japan the government called for voluntary conservation whenPrime Minister Naoto Kan asked Chubu Electric Power Co in May to shut down its Hamaokanuclear power plant in Shizuoka Prefecture citing its vulnerability to earthquakes and tsunami
Japan has a total of 54 commercial reactors supplying about 30 percent of the overall electricity before the March 11 disaster
Meanwhile it is unclear when nuclear reactors that have been offline for regular inspections willresume operation
Coupled with heightened safety concerns among local officials the governments plan to conductsafety tests for all the nations reactors has made it difficult to predict when they will be able torestart
If nuclear reactors that have been offline for maintenance are not restarted all the reactors in thenation will be idle by next spring
It is difficult to respond particularly for businesses that have been mulling a shift (in production)from east to west Yasuchika Hasegawa chairman of Keizai Doyukai (Japan Association of
Corporate Executives) said at a news conference on July 20 They may be feeling You tooKansai Electric
Businesses that have moved their operations elsewhere in the country due to the limited power
832019 news july 23
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supply may be forced to take additional steps
Analysts said with a stronger Japanese currency--reaching 78-yen levels to the dollar--businesseswill likely be tempted to consider shifting their production overseas while the government continuesto flip-flop over the countrys energy policy after the nuclear crisis
The governments call for saving electricity in wider areas has baffled many manufacturers that
have production bases in the western part of the country or shifted them from other parts of thecountry
At present we are not sure if we can achieve a 10 percent cut for sure said a representative of Mitsubishi Electric Corp
About 40 percent of its production facilities are located in the Kansai region manufacturing anarray of products and equipment from chips for cellphones and electric power facilities to railway-related equipment
Reducing electricity usage is expected to have a major impact on the companys operations theofficial said
The company is considering operating part of its plants late at night and use in-house power generators to conserve electricity
Fujitsu Ltd has already moved 20 percent of its servers for research and development in the Tokyometropolitan area to Hyogo and Toyama prefectures out of concern over power supplied by theTokyo Electric Power Co
The company said that the servers will not be returned to the Tokyo metropolitan area because thestep is partly meant to disperse risk
Fujitsu is looking at new measures to reduce electricity use in response to the governmentsconservation request on July 20
JFE Steel Corp plans to cut production at its steel plants in the cities of Kawasaki and Chiba thissummer bolstering output at its plants in the prefectures of Hiroshima and Okayama instead
But the suspension of operation at Chugoku Electrics Misumi thermal plant this month has raisedfears of power shortages in Hiroshima and Okayama prefectures
Still Eiji Hayashida president of JFE Steel said the company had no choice but to comply with thegovernments request
We should do the utmost we can do to cooperate he said
Rolling blackouts were put in place in the spring in the Kanto region served by TEPCO operator of the crippled Fukushima No 1 nuclear power plant
The ministry plans to avert rolling blackouts in western Japan through conservation effortscontracts with big electricity users that oblige them to cut down usage when the power supply istight and diversion of electricity from other electric utilities
832019 news july 23
httpslidepdfcomreaderfullnews-july-23 77
supply may be forced to take additional steps
Analysts said with a stronger Japanese currency--reaching 78-yen levels to the dollar--businesseswill likely be tempted to consider shifting their production overseas while the government continuesto flip-flop over the countrys energy policy after the nuclear crisis
The governments call for saving electricity in wider areas has baffled many manufacturers that
have production bases in the western part of the country or shifted them from other parts of thecountry
At present we are not sure if we can achieve a 10 percent cut for sure said a representative of Mitsubishi Electric Corp
About 40 percent of its production facilities are located in the Kansai region manufacturing anarray of products and equipment from chips for cellphones and electric power facilities to railway-related equipment
Reducing electricity usage is expected to have a major impact on the companys operations theofficial said
The company is considering operating part of its plants late at night and use in-house power generators to conserve electricity
Fujitsu Ltd has already moved 20 percent of its servers for research and development in the Tokyometropolitan area to Hyogo and Toyama prefectures out of concern over power supplied by theTokyo Electric Power Co
The company said that the servers will not be returned to the Tokyo metropolitan area because thestep is partly meant to disperse risk
Fujitsu is looking at new measures to reduce electricity use in response to the governmentsconservation request on July 20
JFE Steel Corp plans to cut production at its steel plants in the cities of Kawasaki and Chiba thissummer bolstering output at its plants in the prefectures of Hiroshima and Okayama instead
But the suspension of operation at Chugoku Electrics Misumi thermal plant this month has raisedfears of power shortages in Hiroshima and Okayama prefectures
Still Eiji Hayashida president of JFE Steel said the company had no choice but to comply with thegovernments request
We should do the utmost we can do to cooperate he said
Rolling blackouts were put in place in the spring in the Kanto region served by TEPCO operator of the crippled Fukushima No 1 nuclear power plant
The ministry plans to avert rolling blackouts in western Japan through conservation effortscontracts with big electricity users that oblige them to cut down usage when the power supply istight and diversion of electricity from other electric utilities