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Kyushu Electric Submits N-Reactor Stress Test Results
Topic Started: 14 Aug 2012, 01:08 AM (70 Views)
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Kyushu Electric Submits N-Reactor Stress Test Results

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Fukuoka, Aug. 13 (Jiji Press)--Kyushu Electric Power Co. <9508> reported the results of a first-round stress test carried out on the idled No. 1 reactor at its Genkai nuclear plant to the industry ministry's Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency on Monday.

In the report, the power company serving the Kyushu region of southwestern Japan said that the reactor can withstand an earthquake 1.61 times greater than 540 gals assumed at the designing stage and a tsunami as high as 13 meters, some six times more than the assumed level of 2.1 meters.

Kyushu Electric also said the company will be able to cool the reactor for up to about 65 days even if all grid power is lost, because power-supply vehicles have been introduced at the plant.

The stress test also found no cracks or corrosion at the reactor, it said.

Kyushu Electric has already submitted first-round stress test results for all other reactors--the No. 2 to No. 4 reactors at the Genkai plant in Saga Prefecture and the No. 1 and No. 2 reactors at the Sendai nuclear power plant in Kagoshima Prefecture.

The Genkai No. 1 reactor has been idled for a regular checkup.

Stress tests are a prerequisite for all nuclear reactors in Japan to be reactivated following the nation's worst nuclear accident at Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s <9501> disaster-hit Fukushima No. 1 plant in northeastern Japan in March 2011.

(2012/08/13)

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