Published 3 days ago • loading... • Updated 2 days ago

Nuclear reactor owned by Fukushima plant operator TEPCO to shut down again hours after restart

On Thursday, a reactor at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant reactivated Wednesday night was shut down hours later due to a glitch, marking TEPCO's first restart since the 2011 Fukushima disaster.
Plant workers halted the start-up after an alarm triggered during control-rod removal, with TEPCO saying there was no safety issue and Inagaki ordered a shutdown to ensure safety.
TEPCO said the glitch posed no safety issue and it was checking the situation, while Takeyuki Inagaki, Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant chief, warned the inspection may take more than a couple of days.
It was not known when the restart process would resume, though the reactor could generate 1.35 million kilowatts, powering more than 1 million households in the capital region.
All seven reactors at Kashiwazaki-Kariwa have been dormant since a year after Fukushima, with TEPCO planning only two restarts despite 8 million kilowatts capacity, while managing a 22 trillion yen cleanup.

Insights by Ground AI

35 Articles

Restarted nuclear plant shuts down after glitch

TOKYO — A reactor at the world's largest nuclear power plant that restarted for the first time since the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster is now being shut down again Thursday due to a glitch that occurred hours after the unit's…

2 days ago·Billings, United States

Read Full Article

West Hawaii Today

Lean Left

Malfunction forces Japan to take restarted nuclear plant offline

TOKYO — Less than six hours after Japan restarted one of the world’s largest nuclear power plants, a technical malfunction forced the facility back offline, dealing a setback to the government’s efforts to restore nuclear energy as a cornerstone of the nation’s energy mix.

2 days ago

Read Full Article