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Japan’s TEPCO resumes operations; Monday earthquake triggers response
Commercial operations have resumed at Kashiwazaki Kariwa nuclear power plant in Japan’s Niigata Prefecture, Tokyo Electric Power Company has announced.
Last week’s commercial restart of Unit 6, a 1,315-MWe boiling water reactor, is the first for a TEPCO nuclear facility since the March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsunami triggered an accident at the utility’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.
TopFuel 2025: Nuclear Reactor Fuel Performance Conference
President
Westinghouse Nuclear Fuel
Tarik Choho is President of Nuclear Fuel for the Westinghouse Electric Company since July 2022. In this role, he leads the development and delivery of Westinghouse’s comprehensive nuclear fuel portfolio and services for all types of reactors around the globe (PWRs, BWRs, VVERs and AGRs).
He joined Westinghouse as President, Europe, Middle East, and Africa Operating Plant Services in August 2019, bringing more than 25 years of energy industry experience to lead sales as well as products and services delivery for the EMEA core business for nuclear operating plant customers.
Previously, he led AREVA’s sales and business development globally, as well as their EMEA business. Before that, he held several technical and leadership positions within AREVA’s fuel recycling and waste management, nuclear material transportation and storage, fuel engineering and sales, and mining and enrichment businesses.
He then became managing director of OCP Group, a world leader in phosphate-based fertilizers, where he led the company’s commercial, strategy and development of group activities worldwide.
Tarik Choho is a graduate engineer in Process Engineering from the Paris École Polytechnique and in Mechanical Engineering from the École Nationale Supérieure des Techniques Avancées (ENSTA). He holds a master’s degree in Mathematics and Automatics from Université Paris Dauphine as well as an Executive Business Management degree from INSEAD.
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