Nuclear plant of Tsuruga

The nuclear plant of Tsuruga (敦賀発電所 " Tsuruga hatsudensho") is exploited by the Japanese Compagnie of atomic energy (JAPC) .
It is built in the Baie of Wakasa on the Préfecture of Fukui which is in the central area of the island of Honshu the principal island of the Japan.

Description

The central of Tsuruga is equipped with two engines of production:

Tsuruga 1 : 340 MWe, brought into service in 1969.

This unit is an ebullient water reactor (REB) built by the American company General Electric:

Tsuruga 2 : 1115 MWe, brought into service in 1986.

Section 2 is a pressurized water reactor (REFERENCE MARK) with 4 loops builds by the Japanese company Mitsubishi.

Other engines of research

Two other engines of research were built with Tsuruga :

Fugen : 148 MWe, brought into service in 1978.

This engine is an engine ATR (Advanced Thermal Reactor) with heavy water builds by Hitachi.

Monju : 246 MWe, construction started in 1985 and completed in 1991, brought into service in 1994, with the stop since 1995, given in service envisaged fine 2008.

This last is the first fast reactor (RNR) built by Mitsubishi.
These engines belong to a Japanese institute: Japan Nuclear Cycles Development Institute.

Known incidents

December 8th 1995, Monju engine: Intense vibrations of the secondary coolant system cause the rupture of a thermometric probe, allowing the escape of several hundred kg of Sodium. Sodium igniting in contact with the moisture of the air, an intense fire occurs, without to immediately set off the alarm nor of emergency stop. The engine was manually stopped 90 minutes after the beginning of the escape.

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