Takahama No.1 reactor marks 50th anniversary

Takahama No.1 reactor marks 50th anniversary

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Nov. 14, 2024, shows Kansai Electric Power Co.'s No. 1 reactor at the Takahama nuclear power plant in Takahama, Fukui Prefecture in central Japan, which marked its 50th anniversary the same day. Japan's nuclear regulator in October gave the reactor the all clear to continue operations, making it the first reactor in the country to be approved for operation beyond 50 years.

Takahama No.1 reactor marks 50th anniversary

Takahama No.1 reactor marks 50th anniversary

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Nov. 14,2024, shows Kansai Electric Power Co.'s No. 1 reactor of the Takahama nuclear power plant in Takahama, Fukui Prefecture in central Japan, which marked its 50th anniversary the same day. Japan's nuclear regulator in October gave the reactor the all clear to continue operations, making it the first reactor in the country to be approved for operation beyond 50 years.

Takahama No.1 reactor marks 50th anniversary

Takahama No.1 reactor marks 50th anniversary

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Nov. 14, 2024, shows Kansai Electric Power Co.'s No. 1 reactor at the Takahama nuclear power plant in Takahama, Fukui Prefecture in central Japan, which marked its 50th anniversary the same day. Japan's nuclear regulator in October gave the reactor the all clear to continue operations, making it the first reactor in the country to be approved for operation beyond 50 years.

MOX fuel placed in storage pool

MOX fuel placed in storage pool

TSURUGA, Japan - Plutonium-uranium mixed oxide fuel processed in France for ''pluthermal'' power generation is placed in a storage pool filled with boric acid solution at Takahama nuclear power plant in Takahama, Fukui Prefecture, on July 6, 2010. Kansai Electric Power Co. gave the media access to observe the process.

MOX fuel reaches Japan nuclear plant

MOX fuel reaches Japan nuclear plant

TAKAHAMA, Japan - The vessel Pacific Heron purportedly carrying plutonium-uranium mixed oxide fuel docks at the Takahama nuclear plant of Kansai Electric Power Co. in Fukui Prefecture on the Sea of Japan, on June 30, 2010. It was the first delivery of MOX fuel to the plant since 1999.

MOX fuel reaches Japan nuclear plant

MOX fuel reaches Japan nuclear plant

TAKAHAMA, Japan - The vessel Pacific Heron purportedly carrying plutonium-uranium mixed oxide fuel docks at the Takahama nuclear plant of Kansai Electric Power Co. in Fukui Prefecture on the Sea of Japan, on June 30, 2010. It was the first delivery of MOX fuel to the plant since 1999.

Pacific Pintail with MOX fuel leaves for Britain

Pacific Pintail with MOX fuel leaves for Britain

TAKAHAMA, Japan - The British nuclear-fuel transport ship Pacific Pintail leaves a nuclear plant of Kansai Electric Power Co. in Takahama, Fukui Prefecture, for Britain on July 4 with eight containers of plutonium-uranium mixed oxide (MOX) fuel. The MOX fuel has been stored at the plant since 1999 when documentation on the fuel was found to have been doctored.

Civic groups protest use of MOX at Takahama port

Civic groups protest use of MOX at Takahama port

TAKAHAMA, Japan - A representative of a number of civic groups reads out a statement Oct. 1 protesting against the use of nuclear power in front of a nuclear plant belonging to Kansai Electric Power Co. in Takahama, Fukui Prefecture. The protest was held on the day a British ship arrived carrying mixed oxide (MOX) nuclear fuel at a port.