Japan Reactivates Reactor at Nuclear Facility
Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. (TEPCO) resumed operations at the No. 6 unit of the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear plant. The reactor had been taken out of service on Jan. 23 when an alarm was triggered during the withdrawal of control rods, a news agency reported.
The unit was disconnected from the grid soon after its initial return to service, making this restart TEPCO’s first attempt to reactivate a reactor since the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear catastrophe.
TEPCO stated that it intends to commence full-scale commercial activity on March 18, after carrying out additional equipment checks to confirm the operational safety of the 1,360-megawatt reactor.
The Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power complex, which includes seven reactors with a combined output capacity of 8.2 gigawatts, has been mostly inactive since 2012 following the earthquake- and tsunami-induced Fukushima crisis.
The facility operates boiling water reactors—the same design used at Fukushima—and remains under the management of TEPCO.
Japan had briefly resumed activity at the reactor in late January, but operations were suspended again the following day after issues emerged within the control rod mechanisms.
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