http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/english/news/20131029_50.html
Tokyo Electric Power Company is likely to post a profit in its midterm earnings report.
The operator of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant is expected to post about 1.1 billion dollars in profits for the April-September period.
It will be the company's first midterm profit since the nuclear accident in March 2011.
Profits rose due to an increase in electricity sales during this summer's record heat wave, as well as a rise in household rates in September of last year.
The company instituted huge spending cuts that include putting off repair work at other power plants and transmission facilities.
TEPCO aims to post a profit for the full business year that ends in March of 2014.
But the company will continue to face the huge costs of compensation related to the nuclear accident, as well as those of decommissioning nuclear reactors and measures to handle contaminated wastewater at the Fukushima plant.
TEPCO wants to restart 2 reactors at the Kashiwazaki Kariwa plant to improve earnings, but nuclear regulators have not yet begun the required safety screening.
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