Japanese power utility Shikoku Electric has submitted an amended construction plan to the Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) for strengthening the third unit of its Ikata nuclear power plant in Ehime prefecture.
The 846 MW reactor, commissioned in 1994, was idled in 2011 after the Fukushima disaster. Shikoku Electric received a positive signal to restart the reactor when the Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) declared in July 2015 that the reactor met strengthened safety standards. In October 2015, the Ehime Prefecture in Japan gave its approval for the restart of Ikata-3 and Shikoku Electric submitted its construction plant to the NRA, which identified a number of revisions required for the application review. The new construction plan includes those revisions and will be followed by pre-operational safety inspections of the unit, which should clear the way for it to resume commercial operation.
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