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Tōkai Nuclear Power Plant

Tōkai-mura, Japan

The 825th largest power station in the world

1.1 GW · Capacity

The Tōkai Nuclear Power Plant (Tōkai hatsuden-sho, Tōkai NPP) was Japan's first commercial nuclear power plant. The first unit was built in the early 1960s to the British Magnox design, and generated power from 1966 until it was decommissioned in 1998. A second unit, nominally a separate power station called Tōkai No.2 Power Station (Tōkai daini hatsuden-sho), was built at the site in the 1970s, the first in Japan to produce over 1060 to 1100 MW of electricity. The site is located in Tokai in the Naka District in Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan and is operated by the Japan Atomic Power Company. The total site area amounts to 0.76 km2 (188 acres) with 0.33 km2, or 43% of it, being green area that the company is working to preserve. The plant has been not operational since the reactor shut down automatically due to the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami.

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

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