WORLD IN BRIEF : JAPAN : Malfunction Halts Nuclear Power Plant
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
The Hamaoka nuclear power plant, 120 miles west of Tokyo, was shut down when its water cooling pump malfunctioned. No radiation escaped, officials said. It was the seventh report of trouble at a Japanese nuclear reactor in two months. The malfunctions have led to growing opposition to the expansion of Japan’s nuclear industry, which plans to generate 35% of the country’s electricity by 1995, up from the present 26.6%.
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