Kansai Electric Power
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Native name
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関西電力株式会社 |
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| Public kabushiki gaisha | |
| Traded as | : OSE: 9503 : 9503 |
| Industry | Electric utility |
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| Founded | Osaka, Japan (1 May 1951) |
| Headquarters | Nakanoshima, Kita-ku, Osaka, Japan |
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Area served
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Key people
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| Products | Electrical power |
| Revenue |
 ¥2,811,424 million (FY 2011) |
 ¥-229,388 million (FY 2011) |
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| Profit |
¥-242,257 million (FY 2011) |
| Total assets |
¥7,521,352 million (FY 2011) |
| Total equity |
¥1,529,843 million (FY 2011) |
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Number of employees
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32,961 (consolidated, as of 31 March 2012) |
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| Website | www |
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Footnotes / references |
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The Kansai Electric Power Co., Inc. (関西電力株式会社 Kansai Denryoku Kabushiki-gaisha?, KEPCO), also known as Kanden (関電?), is an electric utility with its operational area of Kansai region, Japan (including the Kobe-Osaka-Kyoto megalopolis).
The Kansai region is Japan’s second-largest industrial area, and in normal times, its most nuclear-reliant. Before the Fukushima nuclear disaster, a band of 11 nuclear reactors — north of the major cities Osaka and Kyoto — supplied almost 50 percent of the region’s power.
As of January 2012, only one of those reactors was still running. In March 2012, the last reactor was taken off the powergrid.
Kansai Electric Power Company has 164 plants with a total production capacity of 35,760 MW.
On 9 August 2004, KEPCO reported that five of its employees were killed by a steam burst at the Mihama Nuclear Power Plant in Fukui Prefecture. The burst, according to KEPCO, was due to the neglect of mandated safety checks and there was no release of radioactivity.
On 22 March 2006, the AP reported that 2 employees were injured in a four-hour fire. The fire apparently started in an area of the facility where ash is packed into steel barrels. Some of the waste processed in that area contains low levels of radiation, but monitors outside the facility have shown no signs of leakage. All four pressurized water reactors were operating normally at the time.
The Kansai region is Japan’s second-largest industrial area, and in normal times, its most nuclear-reliant. Before the Fukushima nuclear disaster, a band of 11 nuclear reactors — north of the major cities Osaka and Kyoto — supplied almost 50 percent of the region’s power. But as of January 2012, only one of those reactors is still running. Meanwhile, power company employees are racing to reassure Japanese that plants are safe and necessary. In 2012, officials from Kansai Electric Power Co., "have gone door to door in towns that host its nuclear plants, conducting polls and answering questions".
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