Chugoku Electric Power Company will delay its scheduled March 2012 start of the No. 3 reactor currently under construction at Shimane nuclear power plant in Matsue, Hiroshima-ken (Hiroshima Prefecture)becauseof the crisis at the Fukushima-ken (Fukushima Prefecture) No. 1 nuclear power plant at the Dai-ichi (Big One) facility.
The owner and operator of the Shimane plant wants to ensure better preventative measures against tsunami (tidal waves) are in place at that particular reactor.
Thecompany also found trouble with the reactor's control rod drivemechanism in November, 2010 but the inspection of it was delayed and then further delayed by the dual disasters on March 11, 2011.
While that inspection is currently being undertaken, Chugoku does not know when it will begin operation of the No. 3 nuclear reactor.
Construction of the 1.373 million-kilowatt No. 3 reactor began in 2005 and is almost complete.
In related news, two nuclear reactors in Aomori-ken (Aomori Prefecture) are also under construction--part of Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO)'s No. 1 nuclear reactor at its Higashidori nuclear powerplant in Higashidorimura, and a reactor at Electric Power DevelopmentCompany's Oma nuclear power plant in Omamachi. TEPCO, of course, are the owners and operators of the Fukushima-ken nuclear reactor facility.
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The owner and operator of the Shimane plant wants to ensure better preventative measures against tsunami (tidal waves) are in place at that particular reactor.
Thecompany also found trouble with the reactor's control rod drivemechanism in November, 2010 but the inspection of it was delayed and then further delayed by the dual disasters on March 11, 2011.
While that inspection is currently being undertaken, Chugoku does not know when it will begin operation of the No. 3 nuclear reactor.
Construction of the 1.373 million-kilowatt No. 3 reactor began in 2005 and is almost complete.
In related news, two nuclear reactors in Aomori-ken (Aomori Prefecture) are also under construction--part of Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO)'s No. 1 nuclear reactor at its Higashidori nuclear powerplant in Higashidorimura, and a reactor at Electric Power DevelopmentCompany's Oma nuclear power plant in Omamachi. TEPCO, of course, are the owners and operators of the Fukushima-ken nuclear reactor facility.
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