Kyushu Electric to delay reactor shutdown at Genkai nuke plant

Kyushu Electric Power Co will start a planned inspection of the 1,180-megawatt No.4 reactor at its Genkai nuclear plant on Dec. 25. This will necessitate the shutdown of the reactor on the same day.

The utility had intially planned to conduct the inspection by mid-December. It had also announced that a planned maintenance on the 559-MW Genkai No.1reactor would start on Dec. 1, which means that it would also be shut down.

The shutdown of the two units will mean all of Kyushu's six reactors at two nuclear plants will be closed with no definite schedule for restarts.

No reactors taken offline for routine maintenance have been restarted due to public safety fears since the March 11 earthquake and tsunami triggered reactor meltdowns and radiation leaks at Tokyo Electric Power Co's Fukushima Daiichi power station northeast of Tokyo.

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