National Aug 26, 2019
Tepco may consider scrapping one or more reactors at Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant
The host city’s mayor has made such decommissioning a condition for approving the restarts of two other reactors at the plant.
Business / Corporate Jun 20, 2019
Get your fax right: Tepco workers accidentally spark Japan nuclear scare
Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. (Tepco) employees sparked a nuclear scare after a violent, late-night earthquake by ticking the wrong box on a fax form — inadvertently advising authorities that an accident had occurred when it had not. The workers at Tepco, operator of ...
Editorials Oct 8, 2017
Given its scathing criticism of Tepco as late as June, the NRA's recent green light for the restart of two idled Tepco reactors in Niigata raises questions.
National Sep 8, 2017
Former Niigata Gov. Izumida to run on LDP ticket in Lower House by-election
Former Niigata Gov. Hirohiko Izumida said Friday he intends to run with Liberal Democratic Party backing in next month's by-election to represent the Niigata No. 5 district in the Lower House. Izumida told senior local LDP members of his intention to run for the seat, ...
Commentary | COUNTERPOINT Jul 15, 2017
A decade after Niigata's nuclear close call
by Jeff Kingston
On July 16, 2007, a 6.8 magnitude earthquake rattled the world's largest nuclear power complex at Kashiwazaki-Kariwa — a site that the government and Tepco had insisted was seismically safe.
National Apr 22, 2017
Tepco contemplates 2019 restart for giant Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear plant
Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. is planning to restart operations at its Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant in Niigata Prefecture in stages from April 2019, sources said. Tepco is considering reopening four of the seven reactors at the plant over a roughly three-year period through May 2021. ...
National Jan 5, 2017
'Several years' needed to restart Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant: Niigata governor
Restarting the world's largest nuclear power plant will likely take "several years," the governor of Niigata Prefecture said Thursday, highlighting the difficulty of concluding the nuclear disaster reviews sparked by the triple core meltdown of March 2011. Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc., better known ...
National Aug 24, 2016
Two Tepco Kashiwazaki-Kariwa reactors may pass geared-up safety checks by March
Nuclear regulators have decided to gear up the safety assessment of two reactors operated by Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. in central Japan, raising the possibility of finishing the process by next March, sources said Tuesday. Reactor Nos. 6 and 7 at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa ...
Business Feb 16, 2015
Tepco to mull rate hike if it can't restart Niigata nuclear complex
Tokyo Electric Power Co. said it will need to consider raising electricity rates for the first time since 2012 unless it can restart the world's biggest nuclear plant. Resumption of the Kashiwazaki Kariwa station in Niigata Prefecture is essential for sustaining profits, Tepco President Naomi ...
National Jan 7, 2015
Niigata governor still at odds with Tepco chief over reactor restarts
Niigata Gov. Hirohiko Izumida remained at odds Tuesday with Tokyo Electric Power Co. President Naomi Hirose over the restart of reactors at Tepco's Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant in the prefecture, saying the utility has not done enough to probe the reasons behind the March ...
National Nov 12, 2014
Niigata nuclear disaster drill finds governor, state at odds over iodine pill distribution
An evacuation drill to prepare for a nuclear disaster has been held in Niigata Prefecture, but central and prefectural government officials remained at odds over when to hand out potassium iodine pills to residents to mitigate the risk of thyroid cancer in such a ...
Business Apr 1, 2014
New Tepco Chairman Fumio Sudo said the utility will not hike rates later this year even if the restart of its huge nuclear power plant in Niigata Prefecture is delayed. Acknowledging that Tokyo Electric Power Co. as operator of the stricken Fukushima No. 1 nuclear ...