Japan will suspend 2 reactors at the Fukushima Plant 1

Japan's Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) said on Nov. 20 that it will permanently suspend the operation of two reactors at the Fukushima No. 1 Power Plant. 2011

TEPCO made the decision after Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's request in September that the company needed to give up reactors No. 5 and 6 to focus more on its crisis-handling efforts at the factory.

Under TEPCO's plan, the two reactors will not be dismantled and will be used as a research base to develop 'one-on-one ' technology to clean hot fuel. flowing from reactors No. 1, 2 and 3. This is part of the process of dismantling the plant that is expected to last decades. TEPCO will explain this plan to the local government later this month and if approved, the company will make a formal decision.

Fukushima 1. Nuclear Power Plant (Source: Kyodo / TTXVN)

With the acceptance of Abe's request, the company is clearly trying to win government support related to the cost of dismantling outside the factory, which, according to calculations, could amount to 5,000 billion yen. Meanwhile, TEPCO plans to dismantle the plant at about 2,000 billion yen.

When new regulations related to dismantling began to take effect in October 2013, TEPCO could avoid having to incur an extra fee in the fiscal year as of March 2014 due to lack of dismantled budget.

Bearing the 9-magnitude earthquake and tsunami on March 11, 2011, the Fukushima nuclear complex lost almost all of its power and resulted in the inability to cool reactors and fuel tanks. Use from oven 1 to oven number 4.

The number 1, 2 and 3 reactors were melting while the No. 4 reactor building, which had no core fuel in the process of maintenance, was badly damaged after the steam explosion.

However, reactors No. 5 and 6 were also maintained at the time of the earthquake, reaching a state of cessation of cooling due to an emergency generator not being attacked by a tsunami.