Tokyo Electric Power Co.¡¯s invitation to the world¡¯s top nuclear agency to review the safety of its Kashiwazaki-Kariwa facility signals the utility¡¯s desire to win international backing to resume operations at the world¡¯s largest atomic power plant.
Kashiwazaki is Tepco¡¯s best bet of returning to nuclear power generation, after the plant was shuttered along with the rest of Japan¡¯s nuclear capacity following the unprecedented meltdowns at the company¡¯s Fukushima No. 1 plant in 2011.
Firing up its reactors would boost Tepco¡¯s profit by as much as ?32 billion a month, according to Tepco spokesman Tatsuhiro Yamagishi.
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