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At a press conference on the evening of May 6, Prime Minister Naoto Kan announced an appeal to stop the operation of Chubu Electric’s Hamaoka-4 and 5. Chubu Electric held meetings of its board...
Chubu Electric Power Company’s Hamaoka Nuclear Power Station was struck by a magnitude 6.5 earthquake at 5:07am on August 11. The epicenter was 37 kilometers from the Hamaoka plant in Suruga Bay, in Shizuoka...
On December 22, the Board of Directors of Chubu Electric Power Company decided that it would terminate operations at Hamaoka Reactors No. 1 (540 MW, BWR) and No. 2 (840 MW, BWR) and replace...
The Hamaoka nuclear power plant is safe. You can shake it, but you can’t break it. Thus wrote Judge Akira Miyaoka (long may his name be remembered) of the Shizuoka District Court in his...
Only the most hard boiled egg heads took much notice when on June 15 the Hamaoka-5 reactor (ABWR 1380 MW) shut down automatically due to “excessive turbine vibration”, so it was quite a shock...
The Reports on 1 Submitted On April 24, Chubu Electric Power Company submitted a final report to the Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry (METI) regarding the two accidents at Hamaoka 1 in November...