Sendai Nuclear Power Plant
The is a nuclear power plant located in the city of Satsumasendai in Kagoshima Prefecture. The two 846 MW net reactors are owned and operated by the Kyūshū Electric Power Company. The plant, like all other nuclear power plants in Japan, did not generate electricity after the nationwide shutdown in the wake of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster in 2011, but was restarted on August 11, 2015, and began providing power to nearby towns again. Sendai is the first of Japan's nuclear power plants to be restarted. The plant is on a site of 1.45 km2 (358 acres), employs 277 workers, and indirectly employs 790. The reactors are of the 3-loop M type pressurized water reactor, built by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries. Reactors on Site Sendai has two nuclear reactors, Sendai-1 and Sendai-2. Both are pressurized water reactors that make 890 MW of power with a core tonnage of 72 tons of uranium dioxide. Sendai-1 was commissioned on July 4, 1984, at a cost of 278.7 billion yen, and Sendai-2 was commissioned on November 28, 1985, at a cost of 228.7 billion yen. Stress-tests published in 2011-restart crises On 14 December 2011 the Kyushu Electric Power Company published the outcome of