Mitsubishi Heavy, utilities to develop nuclear power plant -Nikkei Business

Shikoku Electric Power

29/09/2022 24:42

TOKYO, Sept 29 (Reuters) - Japan's Mitsubishi Heavy
Industries  7011.T  and four utilities including Kansai Electric
Power Co  9503.T  will jointly develop a next-generation nuclear
power station, targeting completion in the mid-2030's, Nikkei
Business reported on Thursday.
    Prime Minister Fumio Kishida in August urged the restart of
more idled nuclear plants and a look at developing
next-generation reactors, in a major shift in nuclear energy
policy a decade after the Fukushima disaster.  urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL1N300062
    Mitsubishi Heavy and the power companies, which also include
Hokkaido Electric Power Co  9509.T , Shikoku Electric Power Co
 9507.T  and Kyushu Electric Power Co  9508.T , will announce
the plan as early as this week, the Nikkei Business weekly
magazine said in its online edition.    
 (Reporting by Chang-Ran Kim; Editing by Muralikumar
Anantharaman)
 ((ran.kim@thomsonreuters.com; +81-3-4520-1228))