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Japan’s TEPCO resumes operations; Monday earthquake triggers response
Commercial operations have resumed at Kashiwazaki Kariwa nuclear power plant in Japan’s Niigata Prefecture, Tokyo Electric Power Company has announced.
Last week’s commercial restart of Unit 6, a 1,315-MWe boiling water reactor, is the first for a TEPCO nuclear facility since the March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsunami triggered an accident at the utility’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.
Nuclear and Emerging Technologies for Space (NETS-2023) organizer
Director
Space Nuclear Power & Isotope Technologies Division
Dr. Stephen Johnson is the Director of the Space Nuclear Power and Isotope Technologies Division at the Materials & Fuels Complex at the Idaho National Laboratory. He has served as the Director of the Technical Integration Office for DOE’s Office of Nuclear Infrastructure Programs since 2012. Most recently this program fueled, tested, and delivered the MMRTG for NASA’s Mars Scientific Laboratory mission to the planet Mars. He holds a B.S. degree with a double major in Mathematics and Chemistry from Lake Superior State University (1984) and a Ph. D. in Physical Chemistry from Iowa State University (1990).
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