Even as the world's attention remains fixed on the radiation leaking from the Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear reactor complex, many Japanese companies are beginning to reconcile themselves to another legacy of the Great Tohoku earthquake: lack of power. Along with thousands of lives and billions of dollars in property, the Mar. 11 quake and tsunami destroyed 21,000 megawatts of electrical generating capacity-roughly 10 Hoover Dams' worth. The energy drought is being felt most severely not in the relatively rural Tohoku region, where the tsunami did its greatest damage, but in Kanto just to the south of it. It's the nation's most populous region, with Tokyo at its heart, and the six now-infamous reactors of Fukushima Dai-Ichi generated a little under a tenth of its energy. Tokyo Electric Power has put most of the Kanto region under a schedule of rolling blackouts.
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