JAPAN’S NUCLEAR INDUSTRY PUSHES AHEAD WITH EXPANSION AND MODERNISATION, DESPITE RECENT TOUGH TIMES
April 1st, 2008
BY JULIAN RYALL, in Tokyo
BY any standards, it has been a tough couple of years for the Japanese nuclear energy industry. Still stinging from public, political and media criticism of atomic energy operators' practices - including the way in which companies consistently failed to report data that might have been damaging to their operations - the industry was then dealt a blow by Mother Nature.
On July 16, 2007, an earthquake of 6.8 on the Richter scale struck the Niigata region on the northern coast of Japan. The Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant, ...
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