Nuclear plant of Fukushima Daiichi
The Nuclear plant of Fukushima-Daiichi (福島第一原子力発電所 " Fukushima dai-ichi genshiryoku hatsudensho") is exploited by the Compagnie of electricity of Tokyo (TEPCO) .
It is located in the Préfecture of Fukushima on Honshu, the principal island of the Japan.
Description
The power station includes/understands 6 ebullient water reactors (REB) built by three different manufacturers between 1970 and 1979:- Fukushima-Daiichi 1 : 439 MWe, brought into service in 1970, built by General Electric.
- Fukushima-Daiichi 2 : 760 MWe, brought into service in 1973, built by General Electric.
- Fukushima-Daiichi 3 : 760 MWe, brought into service in 1974, built by Toshiba.
- Fukushima-Daiichi 4 : 760 MWe, brought into service in 1978, built by Hitachi.
- Fukushima-Daiichi 5 : 760 MWe, brought into service in 1977, built by Toshiba.
- Fukushima-Daiichi 6 : 1067 MWe, brought into service in 1979, built by General Electric.
Two additional engines with ebullient water (REB) should be operational in 2011 and 2012.
Incidents
The company of Japanese electricity TEPCO indicated that it was possible that in 1978, one of the nuclear fuel bars fell into the core from the unit n°3 from the power station, which could have caused a reaction of spontaneous nuclear fission having reached a critical stage (Reuters, 3/22/2007).
External bonds
- descriptive Page on Fukushima Daiichi
- nuclear plants of Tepco
See too
See also: List of the nuclear reactors
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