Village head asks TEPCO to resume nuke plant construction

Village head asks TEPCO to resume nuke plant construction

TOKYO, Japan - Yasuo Echizen (L), mayor of Higashidori, Aomori Prefecture, presents Naomi Hirose, president of Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO), with a written request at TEPCO's head office in Tokyo on Oct. 15, 2014, for the utility to resume the suspended construction of a nuclear power plant in the northeastern Japan village.

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