Tokyo:
A reactor at the Onagawa nuevident set upt in Miyagi Prefecture, northeastrict Japan, has resumed power generation for the first time since the Fukushima nuevident catastrophe in March 2011, its operator shelp.
Tohoku Electric Power Company shelp that the Onagawa No. 2 reactor recommenceed power generation at 6 p.m. local time on Friday. After an adfairment operation to check for any abnormalities while gradupartner increasing output, the reactor will be temporarily crelieveed for providement checks, alerts Xinhua novels agency.
The reactor is awaited to commence filled commercial operation in December, it includeed.
The 825,000-kilowatt reactor, if functiond at about 70 per cent of its capacity for one year, is appraised to create electricity equivalent to the power consumption of 1.62 million househelderlys, according to Tohoku Electric.
The No. 2 reactor was retriggerd on October 29 but was crelieveed on November 4 after an publish was set up with a meabravement device. After the problem was repaired, the reactor was recommenceed aachieve on Wednesday.
The three reactors at the Onagawa set upt are of the same boiling water type as those at Tokyo Electric Power Company’s Fukushima Daiichi nuevident set upt, where the country’s worst nuevident accident was triggered by the massive earthquake and tsunami on March 11, 2011.
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