Lessons From Fukushima Used as Japan Restarts Nuclear Build

JOHANNESBURG--October 3, 2012--Written by Richard Finlayson, Senior International Editor for Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--Work on the construction of the Ohma 1,383 MW advanced boiling water (ABWR) nuclear reactor in Japan's Aomori prefecture was 40% complete in March 2011 when the tsunami struck Tepco's (Tokyo Electric Power) at the Fukushima nuclear plant. Work on the Ohma plant was stalled as a result of the fallout from the Fukushima disaster.