Kawauchi Nuclear Power Station Unit 1 and Unit 2 will not be in time for terrorism countermeasures, and will stop next year for construction October 3: 19:41
Regarding the Kawauchi nuclear power plant in Kagoshima Prefecture, Kyushu Electric Power Co., Ltd. said that the completion of the anti-terrorism facility was not in time for the deadline indicated by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and that Unit 1 was set up in March next year and Unit 2 in May next year. Revealed plans to stop operation and proceed with construction.
Under the new regulatory standards of the nuclear power plant, as a countermeasure against terrorism caused by aircraft collisions, it is obliged to install facilities called “special serious accident handling facilities” such as a spare control room.
Regarding this, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission requires that the facility be completed within five years after receiving approval for the necessary reviews for operation, and if it is not in time, in principle it will order the operation to stop.
Regarding this facility, Kyushu Electric Power has expressed the view that it is difficult to complete it within the deadline.
At the conference on the 3rd, the schedule of the specific stoppage was clarified, and the plan for the stoppage of Unit 1 in March next year and Unit 2 in May next year was announced when the deadline was reached.
Kyushu Electric Power Co., Inc. will proceed with the construction while it is stopped, and if it can pass the national inspection without any problems, Unit 1 will resume operation in December next year, and Unit 2 will resume operation in January next year.
Kyushu Electric Power Co., Ltd. was the first to show a specific schedule for the shutdown of the terrorism countermeasure facility.
There are 2 nuclear power plants that are currently in operation, 7 nuclear power plants such as Kansai Electric Power and Shikoku Electric Power, and it is difficult to complete the facilities on time. Seems to increase.