Kyushu Electric Power Company technicians will begin loading the Sendai No. 1 reactor in Japan with fuel rod bundles this week after the plant passed a regulatory inspection on July 3.
The four-day operation involves moving the nuclear fuel rods one by one form a storage pool to the reactor. It will take 157 fuel rod bundles to fuel the No. 1 reactor, which is will be the first nuclear reactor restart in the country after a prolonged nuclear power hiatus prompted by the Fukushima Daiichi plant disaster.
The restart for Sendai No. 1 has been pushed back to mid-August with a second Nuclear Regulatory Authority inspection scheduled for July 23 and 24. Friday’s pre-operation tests determined that new safety equipment has been installed and is functional. With those tests complete, the NRA granted Kyushi Electric Power permission to begin refueling the plant, which is in the Kagoshima Prefecture, which comprises the southern tip of the island of Kyushu.
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