Cash-strapped JAPC funds road plans near idle nuclear plant, THE ASAHI SHIMBUN March 8, 2021, TSURUGA, Fukui Prefecture—Multibillion-yen road projects continue on a peninsula here, funded in part by a nuclear power company that has gained no income from electricity for a decade. The roads were planned decades ago for the expected expansion of the Tsuruga Nuclear Power Plant here. Although all nuclear operations and construction at the nuclear plant have long been halted, the work on the roads has not stopped. “We are building a new road,” said a signboard near an area where heavy vehic...