Workers run through emergency procedures at Tepco's idle Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear plant in February.
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TOKYO -- The imminent liberalization of Japan's retail energy market has Tokyo Electric Power Co. scurrying to improve its competitiveness. But a key part of the utility's strategy -- restarting a nuclear plant north of the capital -- is proving difficult to pull off.
The government is set to open up the electricity sector in April. Newcomers are vying for slices of a retail market worth nearly 3 trillion yen ($26.1 billion).
