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Japan starts second new reactor this year |
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Tohoku Electric Power's Higashidori-1 boiling water reactor (BWR) has achieved its first criticality, the second new reactor to start operations this year.
The 1,067-megawatt (MW) unit, which has been under construction since the end of 1998, brings the number of operating reactors in Japan to 55 and is expected in commercial operation in October. A further 2 are still under construction: Shika-2 1,304MW an advanced boiling water reactor (ABWR), which is scheduled to enter commercial operation in March 2006; and Tomari-3, a 912MW pressurised water reactor (PWR) which started construction in 2003 and is scheduled to enter commercial operation in December 2009.
Tohoku also expects to build a second unit at Higashidori which is scheduled to start construction around 2010 and enter commercial operation around 2015. NIA member, Tepco also plans to build two 1385 MW advanced boiling water reactors at Higashidori starting in 2006 and 2008. |
