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25 Mai 2015
May 25, 2015
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May 25, 2015 - Updated 11:20 UTC+2
Kyushu Electric Power Company says it hopes to restart one of its reactors at the Sendai nuclear plant in southern Japan in late September, giving a more concrete target date than previously announced.
The utility revealed this on Monday in a plan submitted to the Nuclear Regulation Authority for on-site inspections of the No.2 reactor at the plant in Kagoshima Prefecture.
The inspections by the regulators are the final step for putting the reactor back online. Under the plan, the inspections will start on June 10th.
Kyushu Electric hopes to load nuclear fuel into the reactor in late August and pull out the control rods about a month later to reactivate the reactor.
The utility says it aims to check the overall functions of the reactor and connect it to the power grid in late October.
The firm used to say that it was planning to restart the reactor after August.
The regulators have already begun their inspections of the No.1 reactor at the same plant. The operator aims to restart this reactor in late July. But the regulators have completed less than 20 percent of the roughly 200 items on the checklist.
With the inspections of the No.2 reactor about to start, the process could take longer than planned.
The 2 reactors are the first to clear the tighter regulations introduced after the Fukushima nuclear accident.
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