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The powerful earthquake that hit Japan's western coast on New Year's Day has underscored the country's exposure to natural disasters, casting fresh doubt over a push to bring its nuclear capacity ...
Japan plans to continue safely restarting nuclear power plants and will use as much renewable energy as possible, Industry Minister Yoji Muto said on Wednesday, indicating no major shift in policy ...
The country is likely to fall short of its 2030 target for nuclear power, reaching only 15% due to resistance from local residents and slow approvals by regulators for restarting existing reactors ...
Before 2011, Japan was generating up to 30% of its electrical power from nuclear reactors. [3] After the Fukushima accident, all reactors were shut down temporarily. As of November 2024, of the 54 nuclear reactors present in Japan before 2011, there were 33 operable reactors but only 13 reactors in 6 power plants were actually operating. [3]
The reactors are all of Toshiba design. Construction of Tohoku Electric's Higashidori Unit 1 began in November 2000 and was completed in December 2005. The design was based on Tohoku Electric's Onagawa Nuclear Power Plant Unit 3, with improvements to the reactor vessel to allow for greater ease in
The plant, like all other nuclear power plants in Japan, did not generate electricity after the nationwide shutdown in the wake of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster in 2011, but was restarted on August 11, 2015, and began providing power to nearby towns again. Sendai is the first of Japan's nuclear power plants to be restarted.
The operator of the tsunami-wrecked Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant said on Monday that it has obtained permission from safety regulators to start loading atomic fuel into a reactor at its ...
The following is a list of Japanese nuclear power plants.After the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, all 17 major plants were shut down.As of 2022, only 6 out of 17 major nuclear power plants operate in the country, operated by the Kyushu Electric Power (Kyuden), Shikoku Electric Power Company (Yonden) and Kansai Electric Power Company (Kanden).