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	HITACHI : Case Studies : Kansai Electric Power
		In 1996, Kansai Electric Power prepared the corporate guidelines indicating their goals to be achieved by the 21st century, and has been working to achieve them under a "new mid-term management plan." The KIND net is the network infrastructure that is needed for the company to achieve this new mid-term management plan.
		Kansai Electric Power has been monitoring communication and data processing for 24 hours a day, 365 days a year at two locations: the network center and the computer center.
		Kansai Electric Power uses JP1 operations management tool to control batch jobs at the computer center that are executed primarily at nighttime, such as server-to-server data transfer jobs.
	www.hitachi-eu.com /jp1/casestudies/casestudy.jsp?view=4 (1715 words)

	Kansai Electric Power Company - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Kansai Electric Power Co., Inc. (KEPCO, 関西電力株式会社, Kansai-Denryoku Kabushiki gaisha) TYO: 9503 is a company that supplies power to the Kansai region of Japan.
		On August 9, 2004, the company reported that four of its employees were killed by a steam burst at the Mihama nuclear plant in Fukui Prefecture.
		The burst, according to the company, was due to the neglect of mandated safety checks and there was no radiation leak.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kansai_Electric_Power_Company (170 words)

	Boston.com / News / World / Asia / Japan orders nuclear plant safety checks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Kansai Electric acknowledged Tuesday that the cooling pipe that caused the accident had not been thoroughly checked, despite a warning from inspectors last year that it posed a danger.
		In the report, Kansai Electric said it routinely checked the extent of pipe erosion and found no abnormality, and the government had praised the company efforts, Morishita said.
		The governor of Fukui Prefecture, where the Mihama plant is located, suggested Thursday he might prevent Kansai Electric from using recycled fuel -- called mixed uranium-plutonium oxide, or MOX -- at one of its nuclear power stations in Fukui by 2007.
	www.boston.com /news/world/asia/articles/2004/08/12/japan_orders_nuclear_plant_safety_checks?mode=PF (614 words)

	CNEWS - World: Japan utility to shut down nuke plants (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Kansai Electric Power Co., Japan's second-largest utility, reached its decision a day after being ordered by the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency to review inspection records of cooling pipes and check for signs of erosion at its nuclear power plants.
		Kansai Electric officials are drawing up specifics for the plan, company spokesman Hiroshi Kinami said.
		Electricity supply from nuclear reactors accounted for 65 percent of Kansai Electric's total electricity output last year.
	cnews.canoe.ca /CNEWS/World/2004/08/13/pf-581171.html (482 words)

	KEIDANREN Nature Consevation Fund: The member's nature conservation activity
		As an energy supplier with ties to the environment, the Kansai Electric Group aims for the world’s highest level by recognizing the size of the impact of its business activities on the global environment and by working to reduce the load placed on the environment by its own business activities.
		Kansai Electric is also involved in “Everyone’s Eco-Friendly Campaign” whereby the company works together with local people to plant forests.
		Kansai Electric is involved preservation and conservation of these precious traditional garden plants at the Yamazaki Traditional Garden Plants Research Center.
	www.keidanren.or.jp /kncf/en/Comp_elec_kansai.html (757 words)

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		Kansai Electric acknowledged on Tuesday that the cooling pipe that caused the accident had not been thoroughly checked, despite a warning from inspectors last year that it posed a danger.
		In the report, Kansai Electric said it routinely checked the extent of pipe erosion and found no abnormality, and the government had praised the company's efforts, Morishita said.
		The governor of Fukui Prefecture, where the plant is located, on Thursday suggested he might prevent Kansai Electric from using recycled fuel _ called mixed uranium-plutonium oxide, or MOX _ at one of its nuclear power stations in Fukui by 2007.
	www.zwire.com /site/news.cfm?BRD=1078&dept_id=151021&newsid=12677277&PAG=461&rfi=9 (579 words)

	E7 Members - Kansai Electric Power Company Inc.
		Kansai services a total population of about 20 million inhabitants in the internationally renowned cities of Osaka, Kyoto, Kobe, Nara and their surrounding areas.
		Kansai sold 144.9 TWh to its 13.2 million customers in the fiscal year of 2004-2005.
		Kansai’s total installed capacity is 33 GW and the company employs a total of 22,500 people.
	www.e7.org /Pages/M-Kansai.html (73 words)

	Japan to shut nuke reactors
		Kansai Electric said procedures would begin on Friday to shut down three units.
		Kansai Electric said on Tuesday the pipe that burst had not been inspected in 28 years and that it had not taken action even after being advised by a sub-contractor that it needed attention.
		Tokyo Electric Power Co, the world's biggest privately owned electric utility, denied a report that it would restart thermal power units in case its nuclear reactors needed to be taken out of service for safety checks.
	www.chinadaily.com.cn /english/doc/2004-08/14/content_365331.htm (487 words)

	CONSTELLATION ENERGY, PUGET SOUND ENERGY, KANSAI ELECTRIC EARN ELECTRIC INDUSTRY'S HIGHEST HONORS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The award is given annually by the Edison Electric Institute (EEI) to the U.S. shareholder-owned member and international member making the most outstanding contributions to the advancement of the industry.
		Kansai used the most advanced engineering to increase reliability and to lower costs, while also using construction techniques favorable to the environment.
		Our U.S. members serve roughly 90 percent of the ultimate customers in the shareholder-owned segment of the industry, nearly 70 percent of all electric utility ultimate customers in the nation, and generate nearly 70 percent of the electricity produced in the United States.
	www.eei.org /newsroom/press_releases/010605d.htm (529 words)

	Kansai Electric cancels MOX orders.
		Kansai Electric Power Co. decided Wednesday to cancel orders for mixed oxide fuel (MOX) from a French company due to fears it would fail stricter fuel checks.
		The Kansai Electric project has been dogged by scandal, most notably when inspection data on MOX fuel ordered from a British nuclear fuel company was found to have been falsified.
		Kansai Electric does not have any useable MOX fuel on hand because it suspended all orders while the earlier case was being investigated.
	nuclearno.com /text.asp?1371 (397 words)

	asahi.com : Kansai Electric so slipshod it avoids trial over 5 deaths - ENGLISH (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Prosecutors also decided that Kansai Electric Power as a whole could not be prosecuted because its oversight system was so lax that reports about the aging and neglected pipes at the plant were never submitted to those at higher levels.
		Kansai Electric Power in 1990 compiled control guidelines for the secondary cooling system that stated that pipes with remaining service lives of less than two years had to be replaced.
		However, after the 2004 accident, central government inspectors checked Kansai Electric's three nuclear power plants and found that between 1992 and 2004, there were 78 cases in which pipes were not replaced although the remaining service life had fallen to under a year.
	www.asahi.com /english/Herald-asahi/TKY200703220073.html (649 words)

	Four die in steam leak at Japan nuclear plant
		An official at Kansai Electric Power, the operator of the plant, said the 826 megawatt nuclear generation unit shut down automatically when the steam leaked from the turbine, which is in a separate building.
		Kansai Electric said there were no plans to shut any other of its plants for checks.
		Kansai Electric Power Co. President Yousaku Fuji makes a deep bow at the start of a press conference at its head office at Osaka, western Japan, on Monday August 9, 2004.
	www.chinadaily.com.cn /english/doc/2004-08/10/content_363692.htm (819 words)

	Afforestation/Reforestation/Carbon sinks :: e8 Network of Expertise for the Global Environment
		Kansai Electric recognises the climate change issues as one of the important management issues to be addressed.
		Kansai Electric has learned that this point of view is inevitable to be successful in implementing tree planting projects.
		Throughout a period of over 20 years of environmental tree planting, Kansai Electric expects absorption of 860,000 t-CO, and is now studying the possibility of using the knowledge and expertise obtained through this project in environmental tree planting projects in arid regions such as China and the Middle East where salinity problem has also emerged.
	www.e8.org /index.jsp?numPage=145 (1923 words)

	Khaleej Times Online
		The approval by the government of Fukui prefecture, in western Japan, clears the way for Kansai Electric Power Co Ltd, to use MOX fuel in its No. 3 and No. 4 nuclear reactors at its Takahama plant in Fukui.
		Officials at Kansai Electric, Japan’s second biggest utility by power output, were not immediately available for comment.
		Kansai Electric’s plans to use MOX fuel were put on hold late in 1999 after the falsification of quality-control data by Britain’s state-owned British Nuclear Fuels (BNFL) on MOX fuel intended for use at Kansai Electric’s reactors came to light.
	www.khaleejtimes.com /DisplayArticle.asp?xfile=data/theworld/2004/March/theworld_March443.xml§ion=theworld (291 words)

	Japanese reactors shut down for checks - - MSNBC.com
		Kansai Electric Power Co., Japan’s second-largest utility, reached its decision a day after being ordered by the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency to review inspection records of cooling pipes and check for signs of erosion at its nuclear power plants.
		Kansai Electric officials are drawing up specifics for the plan, company spokesman Hiroshi Kinami said.
		Electricity supply from nuclear reactors accounted for 65 percent of Kansai Electric’s total electricity output last year.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/5694707 (490 words)

	Kansai Electric Power Company, Inc. (Japan) :: e8 Network of Expertise for the Global Environment
		Kansai Electric Power Company, Inc. serves a total population of about 20 million in the internationally renowned cities of Osaka, Kyoto, Kobe, Nara and their surrounding areas.
		Kansai’s total installed capacity is 33 GW and the company employs a total of 22,200 people.
		Sharing its unique operational knowledge of the electricity sector and wealth of experience with countries facing new pressures on their electrical industry is the most valuable way the e8 can contribute to sustainable development throughout the world.
	www.e8.org /index.jsp?numPage=51 (137 words)

	Plutonium Investigation - Others News - 06/12/1999 - Japanese anti-nuclear groups take KANSAI Electric to court over ...
		Plaintiffs decided to pursue legal action after becoming convinced that Kansai Electric and the Japanese nuclear regulatory authorities are not prepared to carry out a thorough scientific investigation into quality control data falsification of the MOX fuel.
		On the 20th of October, the two groups sent their findings to Kansai Electric asking the company to prohibit the loading of the fuel until it could scientifically prove that no falsification had taken place.
		Kansai Electric will be required during the court proceedings to release further information about the MOX fuel quality control data for Takahama Unit 4.
	www.wise-paris.org /english/othersnews/year_1999/othersnews0000991206b.html (773 words)

	Greenpeace's campaign to Stop Plutonium Terror
		Kansai Electric begins loading MOX into transport cask.
		Kansai Electric loading MOX into transport casks, 21.6.02.
		However for this operation, Kansai have had to construct and install new equipment so that the operation can be done 'dry'.
	archive.greenpeace.org /nuclear/bnfl/news_moxcaskload.htm (519 words)

	Pipeline :: Serving the energy industry across the Middle East (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The agreement is for the supply and purchase of 0.5 million tonnes of LNG a year between 2009 and 2014 and 0.925 million tonnes of LNG a year between 2015 and 2023.
		Kansai Electric is an existing customer of the North West Shelf Venture and signed an LNG sale and purchase agreement with the NWS LNG Sellers in 1985 for 1.13 million tonnes of LNG a year for 20 years, starting in 1989.
		“Kansai Electric was one of our first LNG customers and over the past 14 years its support and commitment has helped us to become Australia’s biggest resource development.
	www.pipelinedubai.com /press/pr_1005.htm (367 words)

	Metering International - The only international publication covering all aspects of utility metering (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The Kansai Electric Power Company, Inc. and ITRAN Communications, Ltd. announce the formation of Linecom, Inc., a joint venture company for the development and deployment of power line telecommunications systems in Japan.
		By wedding Kansai EP's knowledge of the power line and its 12 million customers, ITRAN's PLC technology, and the JV's openness to additional value- added partners, Linecom is uniquely suited to deliver the best PLC Access system for the Japanese market.
		The Kansai Electric Power Co., Inc. (Kansai EP) has been serving the power needs of the Kansai area since its founding in 1951.
	www.metering.com /bits/newsflash_more3.htm (264 words)

	deseretnews.com \| Burst pipe kills 4 at energy plant
		Monday's leak was caused by a lack of cooling water in the reactor's turbine and perhaps by significant metal erosion in the condenser pipe, said the plant's operator, Kansai Electric Power.
		After the accident, Kansai Electric officials found a hole in the pipe that was believed to be the source of the leak.
		Yosaku Fuji, president of Kansai Electric, apologized for the accident as he bowed deeply before reporters at a televised news conference.
	deseretnews.com /dn/view/0,1249,595083059,00.html (952 words)

	KIPPO NEWS Tuesday, March 05, 1996
		Kansai Electric to study coastal ecosystem to stop global warming
		Kansai Electric Power Co. on February 26 announced it will conduct research on ways to use the coastal ecological system for absorption and fixation of carbon dioxide, which is considered a major cause of global warming.
		NEC Corp. said on February 29 it will construct an institute for the research and development of frontier multimedia applications in the Takayama District of Kansai Science City, which is located in Ikoma City, Nara Prefecture.The institute will be built on a 25,000-sq.-meter site and have a total floor space of 7,000 sq.
	www.kansai.gr.jp /KansaiWindowHtml/News/1996-e/19960305_NEWS.HTML (768 words)

	Green Car Congress: Kansai Closing All Reactors for Checks After Fatal Accident
		Kansai Electric Power Co., Japan’s second-biggest utility, is halting all its 11 nuclear reactors for checks after Monday’s fatal accident at the company’s Mihama plant.
		Kansai Electric produces about 56 percent of its electricity from nuclear power plants, according to the Federation of Electric Power Companies of Japan.
		Kansai Electric uses LNG to generate over half its power from thermal plants.
	www.greencarcongress.com /2004/08/kansai_closing_.html (352 words)

	Kansai Electric and Cree Demonstrate a 100 kVA Silicon Carbide Three Phase Inverter
		An inverter is used to convert power from DC to AC, to change operating frequency in variable speed motor drives and to transfer power onto the grid from battery, wind and solar sources.
		Cree fabricated the SiC power devices and Kansai Electric (KEPCO) constructed the SiC modules and inverter using these devices, as a part of the collaborative eight-year effort funded by KEPCO.
		These inverters could eventually reduce conversion losses by more than 50 percent compared to existing silicon (Si) inverters (Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20060125/CLW034) An inverter is used in a variety of applications to convert power from DC to AC or for changing the operating frequency in variable speed motor drives.
	www.prnewswire.com /cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=109&STORY=/www/story/01-25-2006/0004267531&EDATE= (1078 words)

	Bloomberg.com: Japan
		Kansai Electric supplies electricity to the cities of Osaka and Kobe as well as surrounding areas.
		Kansai Electric wasn't required by law to inspect the pipes because pressurized water doesn't flow from the main system running through the reactor, and is therefore not radioactive.
		Kansai Electric began closing its nuclear reactors in stages to inspect pipes for corrosion on Aug. 13.
	www.bloomberg.com /apps/news?pid=10000101&sid=awjLgOxcb6Ds (599 words)

	Nuclear Power Plants - Japan
		Chubu Electric operates the Hamaoka 1, 2, 3, and 4 Toshiba BWR units at Hamaoka-cho, Shizuoka.
		Kansai Electric operates the 3 Mihama (Mihama-cho, Fukui) units, 4 Ohi (Ohi-cho, Fukui), and 4 Takahama (Takahama-cho, Fukui) units.
		Tokyo Electric operates 16 BWR units, ranging from 439 to 1315 MWe, at 3 large facilities in Ohkuma and Naraha, Fukushima and Kashiwazaki, Niigata.
	www.nucleartourist.com /world/plant4.htm (884 words)

	Kansai Elec Power Four dead, 7 injured in Japan's Kansai Electric nuclear plant accident- UPDATE
		A police spokesman in Fukui prefecture confirmed four people were killed in the accident, which happened in the turbine room of a pressurised water reactor at the plant which is run by the Kansai Electric.
		A spokesman for the local fire brigade said the heart of another worker stopped beating at one stage, but it was not possible to confirm the patient's condition.
		The latest accident happened when a nuclear reactor and a turbine connected to the reactor automatically stopped because of an alarm, Kansai Electric said in a statement.
	www.advfn.com /news_four-dead--7-injured-in-japan-s-kansai-electric-nuclear-plant-accident--update_8442936.html (628 words)

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