SHIZUOKA, Mar 19 (News On Japan) –
Chubu Electric Power has begun dismantling the reactor at Unit 2 of the Hamaoka Nuclear Power Plant in Omaezaki, Shizuoka Prefecture, on Monday. This marks the primary time a industrial nuclear reactor is being dismantled in Japan.
The firm began decommissioning work on Unit 2 in 2009 and, in December 2024, acquired approval from the Nuclear Regulation Authority to proceed to the third section of the dismantling course of.
Reactor dismantling is taken into account probably the most important section of decommissioning. On March seventeenth, staff used a crane to elevate and take away the higher lid of the reactor strain vessel, which had housed nuclear gas throughout operation.
Chubu Electric goals to finish the decommissioning of each Unit 1 and Unit 2 at Hamaoka by fiscal yr 2042.
Source: SBSnews6