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trading as
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(
Latin
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for "
energy
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") is an electric utility with its exclusive operational area of
Chūgoku region
The , also known as the region, is the westernmost region of Honshū, the largest island of Japan. It consists of the prefectures of Hiroshima, Okayama, Shimane, Tottori, and Yamaguchi. In 2010, it had a population of 7,563,428.
History
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of
Japan
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. It is the sixth largest by electricity sales among Japan's ten regional power utilities.
It operates the
Shimane Nuclear Power Plant
The is a nuclear power plant located in the town of Kashima-chou in the city of Matsue in the Shimane Prefecture. It is owned and operated by the Chūgoku Electric Power Company.
This plant was once said to be the closest nuclear power plant to ...
.
In 1982, Chugoku Electric Power Company proposed building a
nuclear power plant
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near the island of
Iwaishima
is an island of the Seto Inland Sea, Inland Sea in Japan. With a total altitude of 82 m, it lies at the south-eastern edge of the Yamaguchi Prefecture (山口県, Yamaguchi-ken?) at coordinates .
The name is derived from the ancient ritual of pa ...
, but many residents opposed the idea, and the island's fishing cooperative voted overwhelmingly against the plans. In January 1983, almost 400 islanders staged a protest march, which was the first of more than 1,000 protests the islanders carried out. Since the
Fukushima nuclear disaster
The was a nuclear accident in 2011 at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Ōkuma, Fukushima, Japan. The proximate cause of the disaster was the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, which occurred on the afternoon of 11 March 2011 and ...
in March 2011 there has been wider opposition to construction plans for the plant.
See also
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Ashes to Honey
, (literally ''"Humming of Bees and Rotation of the Earth"'') is a Japanese documentary directed by Hitomi Kamanaka and released in 2010. It is the third in Kamanaka's trilogy of films on the problems of nuclear power and radiation, preceded by ' ...
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Anti-nuclear movement in Japan
Long one of the world's most committed promoters of civilian nuclear power, Japan's nuclear industry was not hit as hard by the effects of the 1979 Three Mile Island accident (USA) or the 1986 Chernobyl disaster (USSR) as some other countries. C ...
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Companies listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange
Companies based in Hiroshima
Nuclear power companies of Japan
Electric power companies of Japan
Japanese companies established in 1951
Energy companies established in 1951
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