A total of 157 nuclear fuel assemblies, including four MOX fuel assemblies, are loaded in the reactor, marking the first use of MOX fuel at Takahama-4. Kansai EP will resume commercial operation in mid-June.<\/p>\n
Takahama-4 was shut down due to an electrical problem immediately after it was restarted in February 2016. The Otsu District Court then issued a temporary injunction on March 9, 2016,<\/a> against operation of both Units 3 and 4, and they remained unavailable until the Osaka High Court reversed the decision in March of this year,<\/a> allowing them to be legally operated again.<\/p>\n Sometime after 9:00 a.m. on May 17, Kansai EP began a final inspection to confirm that control rods to control fission in the reactor core would operate normally. It completed that inspection sometime after 1:00 p.m. If all goes steadily from now, the reactor is expected to reach criticality \u2013 stable, sustained fission \u2013 at about 6 a.m. on May 18. The company plans to resume electricity generation and connect to the grid on May 22.<\/p>\n There are now four NPPs in operation in Japan, including the Sendai-1 and -2 NPPs, owned and operated by the Kyushu Electric Power Co., in Kagoshima Prefecture, and the Ikata-3 NPP, owned and operated by the Shikoku Electric Power Co., in Ehime Prefecture. MOX fuel is also used at Ikata-3.<\/p>\n On May 16, Kansai EP completed loading of nuclear fuel at the Takahama-3 (PWR, 870MWe). Hereafter, it will conduct inspections of equipment and facilities, aiming at a restart in early June, and resumption of commercial operation at the beginning of July.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A total of 157 nuclear fuel assemblies, including four MOX fuel assemblies, are loaded in the reactor, marking the first use of MOX fuel at Takahama-4. Kansai EP will resume commercial operation in mid-June. Takahama-4 was shut down due to an electrical problem immediately after it was restarted in February 2016. The Otsu District Court […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":945,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,6,8,7],"tags":[345,45,91,20,136,19,18,284,285],"class_list":["post-2648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-npps","category-policies","category-regulation-safety","tag-court","tag-fukui","tag-governor","tag-kansai","tag-local-government","tag-nra","tag-restart","tag-takahama-3","tag-takahama-4"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jaif.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jaif.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jaif.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jaif.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jaif.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2648"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jaif.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2649,"href":"https:\/\/www.jaif.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2648\/revisions\/2649"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jaif.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jaif.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jaif.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jaif.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}