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| Ohi (Japan) Nuke Plants OK for Restart. Full Power by End of July |
| 2012-06-19 |
 Japanese government and local officials have given the OK for the restart of two units at Ohi. Units 3 and 4 are expected to be at full power by the end of July.These units have passed a series of enhanced stress tests that were mandated after the cascade failure at Fukushima Dai-Ichi when unit 1 experienced a hydrogen explosion that damaged emergency cooling operations at units 2 and 3. |
| Posted by:crosspatch |
| #8 That would be Ojai which is North of the Ventura / Oxnard area. |
| Posted by: crosspatch 2012-06-19 22:10 |
| #7 #4 is spot on - new Nippon PM Noda himself was quoted as saying that AT LEAST two NucRex at Ohi must be turned on as Japanese Society CANNOT SURVIVE A FULL/TOTAL NUCLEAR PLANT SHUTDOWN. D *** NG IT, I THOUGHT THE SIX-MILLION DOLLAR MAN'S = STEVE AUSTIN'S HOMETOWN OF OHI = OHIGH? WAS IN CALIFORNIA, NOT JAPAN??? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2012-06-19 19:50 |
| #6 Fukushima and Three Mile Island combined! |
| Posted by: crosspatch 2012-06-19 16:08 |
| #5 Don't remember who snarked it, but more people have died from eating organic sprouts than were killed by the Fukishima nuke plants. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2012-06-19 14:24 |
| #4 Well, I expect any remaining plants of the same generation as Fukushima Unit 1 to be shut down permanently. Unit 1 was to be shut down at the end of the month the quake hit for dismantling anyway and it was the unit that started a cascade failure of the other two units when it exploded and cut emergency cooling and power lines to Units 2 and 3. But all told, nobody killed, nobody injured, nobody sickened makes for a hard sell to keep them shut down. More people died on the Deepwater Horizon explosion than at Fukushima. |
| Posted by: crosspatch 2012-06-19 12:23 |
| #3 The news behind the news is that Japan shut off all its nuclear reactors in a panic after the tsunami and then discovered how much damage the shut-off is doing to their economy. Now their government is backtracking. Would not be surprised if 90% of their previous capacity is eventually turned on again. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2012-06-19 11:39 |
| #2 Ohi plants 3 and 4 are going to restart and will be producing full power by end of July. |
| Posted by: crosspatch 2012-06-19 11:28 |
| #1 "Full power" is not accurate. It may apply to units 3 and 4, but doesn't deserve to be part of the headline -- this is only a fraction of the former nuclear power capacity of Japan, and only a small part of Japan's total power needs. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2012-06-19 10:16 |