At a press conference in Iwaki, Kazuyoshi Akaba, state minister of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI), joined Fukushima governor Yuhei Sato in officially turning on the 2MW Hitachi downwind machine.
Akaba, noting the many victims of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident, joined Sato in hailing the project as a “symbol” of the region’s ongoing recovery.
“The government is determined to make this successful,” he told a packed room of reporters at Onahama port, south of the city of Iwaki and the crippled power plant.
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