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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.
Radiation Protection and Shielding Division 2024 (RPSD 2024)
Brian Hunt is a Certified Health Physicist who has been supporting NNSA’s Consequence Management (CM) Program and the Federal Monitoring and Assessment Center (FRMAC) at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico since 2008. Brian currently serves as a deployable responder, instructor, and as the Chair of the Interagency FRMAC Assessment Working Group, which is responsible for establishing Federal Government policy for implementing consistent, defensible, state-of-the-art radiological assessment methods for emergency response. Brian holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in Nuclear Engineering from the University of New Mexico. He received his ABHP certification in 2009.
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