China News Service, April 28. According to Kyodo News, Japan’s Fukui Prefecture Governor Tatsuji Sugimoto held a press conference at the prefectural government on the 28th, announcing that the prefecture agreed to operate the Kansai Electric Power Company’s Mihama Nuclear Power Plant Unit 3 ( The county’s Mihama Town) and the Takahama Nuclear Power Plant Unit 1 and 2 (the county’s Takahama Town) restarted.
After completing the necessary local approval procedures, it will become the first batch of nuclear power units whose operation is fixed as a foregone conclusion under the rule that the operating life of nuclear power plants after the Fukushima nuclear accident is set at 40 years in principle.
Shunden will announce the restart process in the near future and advance preparations such as fuel filling.
The report believes that this will be a major node for governments and power off the government that propose to achieve net zero emissions of greenhouse gases and want to use existing nuclear power plants.
On the other hand, Japanese people’s concerns about the safety of the long-established nuclear power plant and the effectiveness of the evacuation plan have not been completely eliminated.
The towns of Mihama and Takahama agreed to restart in February, and the prefectural assembly also approved it on April 23.
Kanden promised that before the end of 2023, it will determine the candidate sites outside the prefecture for temporary storage facilities for the temporary storage of spent fuel as required by the governor.
The governor has confirmed the safety measures of the three units at the scene and listened to the introduction of the nuclear energy policy and local revitalization measures by Mr. Hiroshi Kajiyama of the economy and industry on the 27th.
However, the anti-terrorism facilities of the three units have not been completed for a long time. Even if the Takahama Unit 1, 2 and Mihama Unit 3 are restarted, they will be shut down in early June and late October respectively.
In addition, the Tokai No. 2 Nuclear Power Plant (located in Tokai Village, Ibaraki Prefecture) has also been approved to extend operation for up to 20 years, but the local government has not yet approved it.