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Tokyo (AFP) March 14, 2011 Beleaguered Tokyo Electric Power on Monday said it had begun a power outage in an area covering some parts of Tokyo and eight prefectures, affecting around 333,000 households. Authorities have announced plans for scheduled rolling power cuts in areas served by TEPCO to make up for the loss of power from crippled nuclear plants, including the Tokyo utility's troubled Fukushima Number One facility. The outage began at around 5 pm (0800 GMT) and was expected to last around two hours. A TEPCO official told AFP that affected areas included some municipalities in Ibaraki prefecture, east of Tokyo and Shizuoka southwest of the capital. Japan records 20 percent of the world's major earthquakes. It generates about 30 percent of its power from about 50 nuclear plants. An explosion rocked a building housing a nuclear reactor at a TEPCO's quake-damaged Japanese power plant Monday, the second such blast in two days, and the cooling system failed at a third reactor. The new troubles at the Fukushima Number One plant, located 250 kilometres (120 miles) north of Tokyo, stalled Japan's efforts to secure the atomic power facility in the wake of Friday's massive quake and devastating tsunami.
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Quake-hit Japan delays planned power cutsTokyo (AFP) March 14, 2011 Japan on Monday delayed planned power cuts, an unprecedented measure that came after the devastating earthquake and tsunami which crippled nuclear power plants in the northeast. Tokyo Electric Power (TEPCO) had originally planned to begin the cuts at 6:20 am (2120 GMT), but has decided to delay them at least until around 10:00 am, Jiji Press and national broadcaster NHK said. Prime Minis ... read more |
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