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Mihama Nuclear Power Plant

Mihama, Japan

The 1099th largest power station in the world

780 MW · Capacity

The Mihama Nuclear Power Plant (Mihama hatsudensho, Mihama NPP) is operated by The Kansai Electric Power Company, Inc. and is in the town of Mihama, Fukui Prefecture, about 320 km west of Tokyo. It is on a site that is 520,000 m2 of which 60% is green space. Mihama - 1 was commissioned in 1970.

Power station data from Wikidata (CC0). Summary from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

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