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Wednesday, May 9, 2012

Japan to take over Tepco after Fukushima disaster

Japan Is Without Nuclear Power, and Could Stay That Way
Bloomberg
The 61-year-old executive was tapped this week to run the Tokyo Electric Power Co. The power company's incompetence, neglect and hubris brought the world's worst nuclear crisis since Chernobyl to Japan. Its safety failures before the March 2011 ...

Bloomberg
Japan to provide $12.5B to nuclear plant operator
BusinessWeek
By YURI KAGEYAMA The government approved on Wednesday a 1 trillion yen ($12.5 billion) public bailout for the operator of Japan's tsunami-devastated nuclear power plant and put it under temporary state control. In exchange, Tokyo Electric Power Co. has ...
Japan to provide $12.55 billion to operator of tsunami-ravaged nuclear plant
Washington Post
... operator of the disaster-hit Fukushima nuclear plant, putting the massive utility under temporary state control as it continues to deal with the colossal damages. The move, which had been widely expected, will prevent the Tokyo Electric Power Co.
Japan to take over Tepco after Fukushima disaster
Reuters
By Yoko Kubota | TOKYO (Reuters) - Tokyo Electric Power Co, Japan's biggest utility and owner of the devastated Fukushima nuclear plant, will be taken over by the government after the country's trade minister on Wednesday approved a $12.5 billion ...

 REFILE-UPDATE 3-Japan to take over Tepco after Fukushima disaster
Reuters
The utility, saddled with trillions of yen in compensation and clean-up costs from the radiation crisis as well as surging fuel costs to cover for lost nuclear power capacity, has been facing insolvency risks since the disaster.

 Japan Takes Control of Tepco in 10-Year Plan to Revive Profit
BusinessWeek
Tepco has been on government support since the March 11, 2011 quake and tsunami wrecked the Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear station, causing reactor meltdowns and forcing about 160000 people to evacuate from towns around the plant.
 

»Japan to Nationalize Fukushima Utility
New York Times
And the utility has been incurring large fuel costs as it makes up for capacity lost at Fukushima Daiichi, as well as two other nuclear power plants that have been shuttered since the quake. Tepco has pushed to reopen at least one of those plants but ...


Japan OKs USD 12.6 bln capital injection for Fukushima plant operator
Kuwait News Agency
TOKYO, May 9 (KUNA) -- The Japanese government on Wednesday approved a JPY 1 trillion (USD 12.6 billion) public bailout for the operator of the quake-damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant as part of a 10-year restructuring plan to help the ...
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