First Japanese nuclear plant to be restarted reaches critical levels

On Monday, electricity savings targets set by the government went into effect
across the country. Households and businesses are being asked to cut their
energy consumption by as much as 15 percent until September 7.

Utilities are still warning, however, that they may have to impose rolling
blackouts in areas where demand is outstripping supply.

One of the most critical areas is the Kansai area, centered on Japan’s second
city of Osaka, and partly supplied by the Oi nuclear facility.

The Oi reactor is the first of Japan’s 51 commercial reactors to go back
on-line, although the No. 4 reactor at the plant is also scheduled to go
back into operation before the end of July.

On Sunday, emergency teams at the crippled Fukushima plant managed to restore
the cooling system for the spent fuel pool, where the temperature of the
water had risen nearly 10 degrees after the power unit failed.

Another fault in early June had a similar effect on the pool, which contains
1,353 fuel assemblies that would release massive amounts of radiation if
exposed to the air.

Source: agencies

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