,
trading as (
Latin for "
energy") is an electric utility with its exclusive operational area of
Chūgoku region of
Japan
Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...
. It is the sixth largest by electricity sales among Japan's ten regional power utilities.
It operates the
Shimane Nuclear Power Plant.
In 1982, Chugoku Electric Power Company proposed building a
nuclear power plant
A nuclear power plant (NPP) is a thermal power station in which the heat source is a nuclear reactor. As is typical of thermal power stations, heat is used to generate steam that drives a steam turbine connected to a electric generator, generato ...
near the island of
Iwaishima, 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 in March 2011 there has been wider opposition to construction plans for the plant.
See also
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Ashes to Honey
*
Anti-nuclear movement in Japan
References
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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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