The Electric Power Research Institute, a utility consortium, estimated that it would take as long as 15 years to go from starting a pilot plant to proving the technology will work.

公共事业联盟电力研究机构估计说，从开始建造领航工厂到证明这项技术能过运行，这将花费长达15年的时间。

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The government and the utility company, Chubu Electric, had been trying to build this plant, against local opposition, for 37 years.

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The police are particularly vigilant in preventing unauthorised people getting near the stricken plant, owned by Tokyo Electric Power (Tepco), Japan's biggest utility.

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