Tepco Cut Backup Power at Fukushima Before Crisis, Sankei Says

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Tokyo Electric Power Co. disconnected an emergency power source at its Fukushima nuclear plant four months before the earthquake and tsunami in March last year wrecked the station, the Sankei newspaper said.

The supply was cut during maintenance work in November 2010 and wasn’t reconnected, the paper reported, without citing the source of its information.