Tokyo Electrical Energy Firm Holdings (Tepco) resumed business operations of a reactor at its Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear energy plant on Thursday afternoon, marking the primary business restart by the corporate because the 2011 Fukushima nuclear catastrophe.
The No. 6 reactor on the plant in Niigata Prefecture entered full business operation at 4 p.m., about 14 years after it was final in service. The restart of economic operations, initially scheduled for late February, comes roughly 50 days later following a collection of technical points after the reactor was introduced again on-line in January.
Tepco mentioned it accomplished a closing pre-operation inspection earlier within the day, confirming there have been no abnormalities within the reactor, generator or turbine whereas working at full capability. The corporate then issued a certificates confirming the completion of pre-use checks to the plant’s common supervisor, Takeyuki Inagaki.
