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Tokyo faced the possibility of rolling blackouts this week after its main energy supplier shut down all its nuclear reactors. TEPCO, the world’s largest electric company, was ordered to suspend operations for a thorough safety review after it admitted to covering up dangerous violations at its nuclear plants. Japan gets 30 percent of its energy from nuclear power, but the industry has been plagued by scandal. In 1999, an accident at a fuel-reprocessing plant killed two workers who had been illegally mixing uranium in buckets.
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