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Takeda Pharmaceutical will introduce sodium-sulfur batteries, in which a large volume of electricity can be stored, in its Osaka plant (Osaka City) in preparation for electricity shortages in summer 2012 and onward. Together with the enhancement of privately owned electrical…
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