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ANOTHER ONE!!! TEPCO may resume operations of No. 3 reactor in Niigata
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TEPCO may resume operations of No. 3 reactor in Niigata
TOKYO, April 13, Kyodo
The chief of Tokyo Electric Power Co. expressed his desire Wednesday to restart by the yearend the operations of the No. 3 nuclear reactor at a Niigata Prefecture nuclear plant damaged by an earthquake that ravaged the prefecture in 2007.
''We would like to begin procedures for the No. 3 reactor by the end of the year,'' President Masataka Shimizu said of the status of the Nos. 2, 3 and 4 reactors that have been suspended since the 2007 temblor.
TEPCO ''would like to operate the reactor while deploying power-source vehicles and implementing measures to withstand tsunamis,'' he told a news conference, indicating the company will reinforce the reactor building to prepare for possible further earthquakes.
The Kashizawaki-Kariwa nuclear plant, fitted with a total of seven reactors, was hit by the magnitude-6.8 temblor on July 16, 2007.
TEPCO said in a 2007 report the plant developed a total of 50 cases of radioactive water leaks, fire at its transformer and other problems as a result of the 2007 quake.
Shimizu remained noncommittal on the fate of the Higashidori nuclear power plant which TEPCO is now building in Higashidori, Aomori Prefecture.
==Kyodo
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