Nuclear shutdown

摘要

Obeying a 6 May request from Prime Minister Naoto Kan, Japanese utility Chubu Electric Power has suspended operations at its Hamaoka nuclear power station, which sits in an area considered overdue for a large earthquake. Three reactors at the plant, which some seismologists have dubbed the "most dangerous" in the country, will not be restarted until Chubu completes existing plans to upgrade sea-wall defences there. The suspension has worried both utilities and local industry, who fear for their electricity supply if other nuclear plants under inspection following the Fukushima disaster are also ordered to close.