Japan’s Chugoku Elec restarts its Shimane nuclear reactor for the first time in 13 years

Japan’s Chugoku Electric Power on Saturday restarted its Shimane nuclear power plant in the west of the country, which was closed shortly after the Fukushima disaster in 2011, the company said.

The long-delayed restart of reactor no. 2’s 820 megawatt (MW) plant, which was shut down in January 2012, increases Japan’s number of operational reactors to 14, with a combined capacity of 13,253 MW.

Japanese demand for liquefied natural gas and thermal coal is expected to decline next year, with Tohoku Electric Power recently resuming operations at reactor No. 2 of 825 MW at its Onagawa nuclear power plant in northern Japan.

Increased nuclear plant activity is expected to help Japan meet growing energy demand from semiconductor factories and data centers that support artificial intelligence applications.

The government expects power generation to grow to between 1.35 and 1.5 trillion kilowatt hours (kWh) by 2050, up from 1 trillion kWh expected this decade, as Japan builds more data centers , chip factories and other energy facilities. intensive businesses.

For Chugoku Electric, the restart of the Shimane reactor, halted months after the 2011 Fukushima disaster, follows a total investment of 900 billion yen ($6 billion) in safety measures to comply with tougher post-Fukushima regulations. Fukushima.

Source: Terra

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