Tomari Nuclear Power Plant
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The nuclear power plant Tomari (Japanese泊 発 电 所, Tomari hatsudensho ) is a nuclear power plant in Japan. It is in the city Tomari district Furuu in the prefecture of Hokkaido. The system on its 1.35 km2 premises owned by the Hokkaido Denryoku. It is the only nuclear power plant in Hokkaido. On the island live about 5.5 million people.
The plant has three nuclear reactors from Mitsubishi.
Incidents and accidents
1995 some workers were seriously injured when a tank of radioactive waste caught fire.
On August 17, 2000, a worker was killed in the field of radioactive waste in a pan. He died later in hospital. Despite decontamination of workers still carried in the ambulance contaminated clothing, neither ambulance driver nor hospital personnel were informed and therefore unprepared.
In September 2003, cooling water ran out from the primary circuit of Tomari -2.
In May 2005, several people were arrested, after they had exceeded the 2.5 m high security fence to cut bamboo.
A computer virus arrived in June 2005 plans and data from the PC a Mitsubishi employee to the Internet. This included plans of nuclear power plants Tomari and Sendai, similar thing happened to an employee of the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency, the Japanese nuclear regulatory authority.
After Fukushima
Since the nuclear disaster at Fukushima, the Japanese save massive power to precaution - it is feared more quakes - to leave off as many nuclear reactors.
Reactor 1 in Tomari was shut down due to "regular maintenance" ( scheduled maintenance ) on 20 April 2011; Reactor 2 on August 26, 2011.
3 of the reactor NPP Tomari: After the penultimate ongoing nuclear reactor had gone as planned by the network in March 2012, is only a single nuclear reactor was in operation in Japan.
5 May 2012 went Tomari -3 as the last nuclear reactor in Japan following the nuclear disaster in Fukushima for several months maintenance off-line temporarily. So Japan had to completely do without nuclear energy for the first time in 42 years.
The Japanese nuclear regulatory authority established in the framework of the ongoing inspection that the emergency cooling system of the Tomari nuclear power plant does not meet the new requirements. The Group Hokkaido Electric therefore announced additional extensive measures. Due to these circumstances, the commissioning of the power plant is to " significantly " delay.
Data of the reactor units
The Tomari nuclear power plant has three blocks: