Reactor at Kansai Electric's Oi Plant Stops after Alarm
Osaka, Aug. 9 (Jiji Press)--The No. 3 reactor at Kansai Electric Power Co.'s Oi nuclear power plant in Fukui Prefecture, central Japan, has stopped automatically after an alarm went off, the company said in the small hours of Sunday. While the cause of the incident is under investigation, no leakage of radioactive substances has occurred, according to the firm, which serves the Kansai weste...
On August 9, Kansai Electric Power Co.'s Oi nuclear power plant near Fukui Prefecture in central Japan experienced an automatic shutdown of its No. 3 reactor. The incident occurred around 11:55 p.m. Saturday when an alarm sounded, indicating an abnormality in a device responsible for generating a magnetic field connected to the reactor's power generator, which is linked to a turbine.
Kansai Electric reported that both the power generator and the reactor ceased operations automatically upon receiving the alarm. The plant has been operational for 35 years, with a planned regular checkup set to commence in October. Notably, a similar issue with a comparable device led to the automatic shutdown of the No. 2 reactor's power generator and the reactor itself at Kansai Electric's Mihama nuclear plant in Fukui in April 2000.
As of now, the cause of the latest incident is under investigation, but no leakage of radioactive substances has been detected. The reactor in question is currently undergoing decommissioning.
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