Tepco visits houses to apologize over latest blunder on safety issue

Tepco visits houses to apologize over latest blunder on safety issue

An employee (L) of Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. meets a resident of the village of Kariwa, which hosts the company's idled Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant in Niigata Prefecture, on May 29, 2017, to apologize for providing erroneous information on a key safety issue. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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