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At a press conference on April 13, President Masataka Shimizu of Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) stated that the company aimed to restart Kashiwazaki-Kariwa-3 (KK-3) within the year. On the following day, April 14,...
1. KK-3 Problems Seismic motion Niigata Prefecture’s subcommittee on equipment integrity and seismic safety began its review of the integrity of Kashiwazaki-Kariwa (KK) Unit 3 (BWR, 1100MW) on December 13, 2010. However it is...
On October 28 Niigata Prefecture’s technical committee, in its third meeting for the year, concluded that it was safe to restart Tokyo Electric Power Company’s (TEPCO) Kashiwazaki-Kariwa No. 5 Reactor (KK-5, BWR, 1100MW). If...
On the afternoon of August 28, 300 people from around Japan gathered at a meeting in Kashiwazaki City hosted by the “Citizens’ Group to Protect Life and Home Town from Nuclear Power Plants”. Three...
It is three years since the Chuetsu-oki Earthquake struck the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant (KK). (See CNIC statement on page 5.) Since then two reactors (Units 6 & 7) have resumed commercial operations and...
On May 11 Niigata Prefecture’s technical committee on safety control of nuclear power plants endorsed the restart of the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa (KK) Unit 1 (BWR, 1100MW). KK-1 was shaken most (680 Gal*) and incurred the...
Tokyo Electric Power Company’s (TEPCO) Kashiwazaki-Kariwa (KK) Nuclear Power Station Unit 6 (ABWR 1,356MW) resumed commercial operations on January 19 this year. KK-7 (also ABWR 1,356MW) resumed commercial operations on December 28 last year,...
Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) had hoped to begin commercial operation of Units 6 and 7 of the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant (KK) in November, but it appears increasingly unlikely that it will be...
Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) was hoping that Unit 7 (ABWR, 1,356 MW) would soon be the first plant at its Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Station (KK) to resume commercial operations since the July 2007...
July 16 was the second anniversary of the Chuetsu-oki Earthquake. The seismic force that struck Tokyo Electric Power Company’s (TEPCO) Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Station (KK) was unprecedented in the history of nuclear power. Start-up...