Nuclear reactor owned by Fukushima plant operator TEPCO suspends hours-old restart

The restart of the world’s largest atomic powerfulness works was suspended lone hours aft it resumed for the archetypal clip since the 2011 Fukushima disaster

TOKYO -- The restart of the world’s largest atomic powerfulness works was suspended Thursday lone hours aft it resumed for the archetypal clip since the 2011 Fukushima atomic disaster.

The restart of the No. 6 reactor astatine the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa works successful north-central Japan was suspended owed a glitch related to power rods, which are indispensable to safely starting up and shutting down reactors, according to its operator, Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings.

TEPCO said determination was nary information contented from the glitch and it was checking the situation. It was not known erstwhile the restart process would resume.

The restart astatine the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa works was being watched intimately since TEPCO besides runs the Fukushima Daiichi works that was ruined successful the 2011 quake and tsunami and since resource-poor Japan is accelerating atomic powerfulness usage to conscionable soaring energy needs.

All 7 reactors astatine Kashiwazaki-Kariwa person been dormant since a twelvemonth aft the meltdowns of reactors astatine the Fukushima works contaminated the surrounding onshore with radioactive fallout truthful terrible that immoderate areas are inactive unlivable.

TEPCO is moving connected the cleanup astatine the Fukushima tract that’s estimated to outgo 22 trillion yen ($139 billion). It's besides trying to retrieve from the harm to its estimation aft authorities and autarkic investigations blamed the Fukushima catastrophe connected TEPCO’s atrocious information civilization and criticized it for collusion with information authorities.

Fourteen different atomic reactors person restarted crossed Japan since 2011, but the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant, astir 220 kilometers (135 miles) northwest of Tokyo, is the archetypal TEPCO-run portion to resume production.

A restart of the No. 6 reactor could make an further 1.35 cardinal kilowatts of electricity, capable to powerfulness much than 1 cardinal households successful the superior region.

The Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant’s combined output capableness of 8 cardinal kilowatts makes it the world’s largest, though TEPCO plans to resume lone 2 of the 7 reactors successful coming years.

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