EGN NEWS DESK
Nuclear regulators stated Friday that they’ve concluded that the No. 2 unit on the Tsuruga nuclear energy plant in Fukui Prefecture doesn’t meet stricter laws imposed on the sector following the 2011 Fukushima catastrophe, a requisite to restart the power.
This is the primary time that the Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA), arrange in 2012 following the Fukushima catastrophe, has rejected an utility to restart a reactor below the brand new guidelines.
Plant operator Japan Atomic Power Co. had been seeking to reboot the No. 2 unit.
The new requirements don’t allow the set up of safety-critical tools on an lively fault line and the NRA stated it can not deny the chance that the fault line working below the reactor constructing is related to adjoining lively fault traces.
The NRA will publish its official determination at a later date, after which Japan Atomic Power must make tough choices, together with that involving the decommissioning of the reactor.
Translated by The Japan Times
