Japanese customers asked to reduce electricity usage as now only one nuclear reactor still online as 53 offline

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"Only one of Japan’s 54 units—in Tomari, Hokkaido—is still working, and that is scheduled to be shut down for maintenance work in May....“We are expected to secure a stable supply of electric power for the time being,” TEPCO president Toshio Nishizawa said in a statement on Sunday. “But we call on customers to continue cooperating in saving electricity.”

Source: Japan down to one nuclear reactor after shutdown

MAR. 26, 2012

Japan Today

http://www.japantoday.com/category/national/view/tepcos-last-operating-nuclear-reactor-goes-offline-for-maintenance