THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
December 25, 2021 at 16:50 JST
Masaya Kitta, left, the president of Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s Niigata office, holds a news conference Dec. 24 along with Takeyuki Inagaki, the head of the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant. (Toshinari Takahashi)
Shoddy welding maintenance work at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant in Niigata Prefecture will push back moves to bring the facility back online by many months, perhaps longer. [Read More]
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