Tokyo:
A reactor on the Onagawa nuclear plant in Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, has resumed energy technology for the primary time for the reason that Fukushima nuclear catastrophe in March 2011, its operator stated.
Tohoku Electrical Energy Firm stated that the Onagawa No. 2 reactor restarted energy technology at 6 p.m. native time on Friday. After an adjustment operation to test for any abnormalities whereas regularly growing output, the reactor shall be briefly halted for gear checks, reviews Xinhua information company.
The reactor is predicted to start out full industrial operation in December, it added.
The 825,000-kilowatt reactor, if operated at about 70 per cent of its capability for one 12 months, is estimated to generate electrical energy equal to the facility consumption of 1.62 million households, in line with Tohoku Electrical.
The No. 2 reactor was reactivated on October 29 however was halted on November 4 after a difficulty was discovered with a measurement gadget. After the issue was mounted, the reactor was restarted once more on Wednesday.
The three reactors on the Onagawa plant are of the identical boiling water sort as these at Tokyo Electrical Energy Firm’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, the place the nation’s worst nuclear accident was triggered by the large earthquake and tsunami on March 11, 2011.
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