Cutting-edge coal plants planned in Fukushima: report

[FarCenter]

AFP - A Japanese utility plans to construct two cutting-edge coal power plants in Fukushima, an area severely hit by the 2011 nuclear disaster, a report said Saturday.

Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO), the cash-strapped operator of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, and three Mitsubishi group companies are seeking to open the new facilities as early as 2020, the leading Nikkei business daily said.

The project is aimed at helping TEPCO reduce its reliance on costly natural gas and create jobs in the area, the Nikkei said.

The firms expect the plants to generate one million kilowatts, the equivalent of one nuclear reactor, as the utility works to decommission the Fukushima Daiichi, which went into meltdown after being struck by a giant tsunami in March 2011.

http://www.france24.com/en/20131123-cutting-edge-coal-plants-planned-fukushima-report

[hunter]

1. That's just swell...

[Drew Richards]

2. They live in the ring of fire surrounded by ocean why the hell are they not doing geothermal?

Along with wind and wave?

[BlueToTheBone]

3. Oh, Please

that would be way too sensible.

It really makes you wonder what the heads of these companies are thinking. Does it have to do with sustainability or is it about the profits. I can never understand what they don't realize about the fact that we are all one and what happens to one, happens to all as far as our climate and environment is concerned.