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Read Replies (1) | Respond to Sure hope this is a good, modern design. It is on the coast!Tepco Loads Fuel Rods In World's Largest Nuclear Power Plant As Atomic Era Reignites Japan's Nuclear Regulation Authority on Monday approved the plans to insert fuel rods at the No. 7 reactor ..." Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant (??????????, Kashiwazaki-Kariwa genshiryoku-hatsudensho , Kashiwazaki-Kariwa NPP) is a large, modern (housing the world's first advanced boiling water reactor or ABWR) nuclear power plant on a 4.2-square-kilometer (1,000-acre) site. [1] The campus spans the towns of Kashiwazaki and Kariwa in Niigata Prefecture , Japan , on the coast of the Sea of Japan , where it gets cooling water. The plant is owned and operated by Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), and it is the largest nuclear generating station in the world by net electrical power rating. Chuetsu offshore earthquake took place, with its epicenter located only 19 km (12 mi) from the plant. The earthquake registered Mw 6.6, ranking it among the strongest earthquakes to occur in immediate range of a nuclear power plant. [1] This shook the plant beyond design basis and initiated an extended shutdown for inspection, which indicated that greater earthquake-proofing was needed before operation could be resumed. The plant was completely shut down for 21 months following the earthquake. Unit 7 was restarted after seismic upgrades on May 19, 2009, followed later by units 1, 5, and 6. (Units 2, 3, and 4 were not restarted by the time of the March 2011 earthquake.) en.wikipedia.org
