Reading Newspaper 4

日本初の商用炉、東海原発は９８年に発電をやめ、解体作業が進んでいる。敦賀の１ 号機も運転が４０年を超え、先が見えてきた２号機も動かせないのなら、経営の軸足を廃炉ビジネスに移してはどうだろう。一つで少なくとも数百億円、数十 年もの大事業だ。しかも国内だけで膨大な需要が約束されている。


Its reactor at the Tokai nuclear power plant, Japan's first commercial reactor, ceased operation in 1998 and is currently being dismantled. And retirement was looming anyway for the Tsuruga plant's No. 1 reactor, which has now put in more than 40 years of service. If there is no future for the No. 2 reactor either, I would suggest that the company shift its entire business focus to reactor decommissioning. It is a huge project, one which lasts decades and is worth several tens of billions of yen per reactor. And better yet, it is a growth industry in Japan alone.