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27 March 2012
Japan: Only 1 of 54 Reactors Operating
Japan: Only 1 of 54 Reactors Operating, 26 March 2012 There is only one of Japan’s 54 reactors now operating, after operator
TEPCO
(Tokyo Electric Power Company) shut down its Kashiwazaki-6 unit in the early morning of 26 March 2012. The owner of the Fukushima nuclear power plant took off the grid the last of its 17 nuclear reactors—10 at Fukushima and 7 at Kashiwazaki—and the last one that was still operating on Japan’s main island Honshu. The only remaining operating plant in Japan is (…)
9 March 2012
Switzerland: Mühleberg Reactor Likely to Close in 2013
Switzerland, 9 March 2012 : The Swiss Federal Administrative Court has ruled that the Mühleberg nuclear power plant has to be shut down by the end of June 2013, unless the operator invests massively in additional safety features. The Court’s requests are widely seen as jeopardizing the continued operation of the over 40-year old 373 MWe Boiling Water Reactor.
29 February 2012
Final Curtain for Oldest
UK
Reactor
The
UK
Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (
NDA
) announced the closure of the world’s oldest nuclear power plant, that stopped generating electricity at 11h00 on 29 February 2012 after 44 years of operation. Since 1967 it has generated 137.5 TWh of power. This leaves only two reactors at the Wylfa plant as First Generation
MAGNOX
plants operating in the
UK
. Both were commissioned in 1971.
22 February 2012
South Korea: Two Grid Connections in January
22 February 2012. The International Atomic Energy Agency (
IAEA
) announced today that two new reactors were connected to the South-Korean electricity grid, Shin-Wolsong-1 on 27 January and Shin-Kori-2 on 28 January 2012, both 960
MW
Pressurized Water Reactor (
PWR
).
21 February 2012
Only Two Reactors Operating in Japan
Japan. At midnight on 20 February 2012, the Takahama-3 reactor in Fukui Prefecture was shut down for regular inspection and refueling. That leaves Japan with only 2 of its 54 commercial reactors operating. The Kashiwasaki-6 reactor in Niigata prefecture is scheduled to be taken off the grid on 26 March and the Tomari-3 unit in Hokkaido is expected to shut down by late April 2012. Restart of any of the idled reactors has so far been prevented by local authorities and an increasingly vocal (…)
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