Japan’s Tohoku Electric Power has restarted Unit 2 at its Onagawa nuclear station after additional safety construction work delayed the process.
The long-delayed restart of the 796-MW boiling water reactor unit, confirmed on Tuesday (29 October), takes the number of Japan’s operational reactors to 13, with a combined capacity of about 12,500 MW.
The station, in Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, is about 180 km north of the Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear power station. It was hit by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami that resulted in meltdowns at Fukushima-Daiichi, but survived with its cooling system intact, saving its reactors from the threat of meltdowns. Onagawa has been offline since the Fukushima disaster.