Mayor checks tsunami countermeasures work at Hamaoka nuclear plant
The mayor of the Shizuoka Prefecture city where the Hamaoka atomic power plant is located visited the nuclear complex Monday to check the progress of construction work to enhance the plant's safety against huge tsunami.

Omaezaki Mayor Shigeo Ishihara visited the plant after the operator, Chubu Electric Power Co., said it will extend the construction period by about a year, to the end of 2013, and hinted the plant would not be reactivated until 2014 at the earliest.
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