Reactor at Kansai Electric’s Oi plant stops after alarm
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An alarm sounded at a nuclear reactor at a power plant in Fukui Prefecture, Japan, causing the reactor to automatically shut down. Officials confirmed that no radioactive leakage occurred.
The incident occurred on Saturday before midnight local time. Kansai Electric Power Company announced that reactor number 3 at the Oi Nuclear Power Plant had been shut down. The company assured that no radioactive leak had been detected. The operator said it was investigating the cause of the generator incident. It admitted that it was unclear when the reactor would be able to resume operation. Safety measures after the Fukushima disaster: The O…
Kansai Electric Power Company announced on the 9th that Unit 3 of the Ohi Nuclear Power Plant (Ohi Town, Fukui Prefecture), which was in operation, automatically shut down at around 11:56 p.m. on the 8th. An alarm for "field loss," indicating that the magnetic field of the generators had been lost, was issued, and the generators automatically shut down, causing the reactor to shut down as well.
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