Japanese power utility Kansai Electric has restarted the third reactor of its Takahama nuclear power plant in the Fukui prefecture of Japan, after having restarted the fourth reactor in May 2017 (commercial operations expected in June 2017 at Takahama-4 and in July 2017 at Takahama-3).
The Takahama nuclear power plant consists of four reactors, two rated 780 MW commissioned in 1974 and 1975 and two 830 MW commissioned in 1985. All were mothballed in 2011 after the Fukushima disaster but unit 3 was restarted in January 2016 and unit 4 in February 2016. However, a court injunction obliged Kansai Electric to take Takahama-3 and 4 offline in March 2016. That ruling was overturned in March 2017, paving the way for operations to restart at the two Takahama reactors.
Five reactors are now operational in Japan, out of 42 before the Fukushima disaster in 2011: units 1 and 2 at Kyushu Electric's Sendai plant in the Kagoshima prefecture, Shikoku Electric's Ikata-3 reactor in the Ehime prefecture and units 3 and 4 at Kansai Electric's Takahama plant in Fukui. They could be followed by the restart of units 3 and 4 of Kyushu Electric's Genkai plant in the Saga prefecture in the summer 2017 and that of units 3 and 4 at Kansai Electric's Oil nuclear plant in Fukui as of late 2017.
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