Tokyo Electric Power Company
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Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings, Incorporated is a Japanese electric utility holding company servicing Japan's Kantō region, Yamanashi Prefecture, and the eastern portion of Shizuoka Prefecture.
Headquarters in Chiyoda, Tokyo
Three of the reactors at Fukushima I overheated, causing meltdowns that eventually led to explosions, which released large amounts of radioactive material into the air.
Spent nuclear fuel pool at TEPCO's Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant on 27 November 2013
Nuclear power in Japan
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Japan started using nuclear power for electricity generation in 1966, and it generated approximately a third of the country's electrical power prior to the Fukushima accident in 2011. After a near-nat
The Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant, a nuclear plant with seven units, the largest single nuclear power station in the world
Three experimental reactors installed in Tōkai, Ibaraki, played key roles in the early development of nuclear power in Japan: from left to right, JRR-1 (1957), JRR-2 (1960), and JRR-3 (1962).
The headquarters of Electric Power Development, or J-Power, whose activities are specially directed towards R&D on new power sources.
Anti-Nuclear Power Plant Rally on 19 September 2011 at Meiji Shrine complex in Tokyo. Sixty thousand people marched chanting "Sayonara nuclear power" and waving banners, to call on Japan's government to abandon nuclear power, following the Fukushima disaster.