Japanese power utility Shikoku Electric has restarted the third reactor of its Ikata nuclear power plant in Ehime prefecture (Japan), after having been stopped for more than five years.
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 Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA), which identified a number of revisions required for the application review. The new construction plan included those revisions. The NRA approved the restart in March 2016.
Ikata-3 is the fifth reactor to be restarted under the tighter safety standards enacted by the Japanese Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA), after Kyushu Electric's Sendai-1 and 2 reactors in the Kagoshima prefecture and Kansai Electric's Takahama-3 and 4 reactors in the Fukui prefecture; the Takahama units have been stopped again by an injunction by the Otsu district court in March 2016.
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