TEPCO sees no quick restart for biggest nuclear plant in Niigata

KARIWA — Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO) sees no imminent resumption of operations at the world’s biggest nuclear plant, shut down after last year’s Fukushima disaster, further raising its costs as it spends more on fossil fuels to generate electricity.

A wall to protect the 8,212-megawatt Kashiwazaki-Kariwa station’s seven reactors against tsunamis will not be finished until June next year, said Shiro Arai, deputy site manager.

“It is too premature to talk about when reactor restarts will happen,” Arai told Reuters in an interview at the plant in Niigata Prefecture.
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