A nuclear reactor is deactivated in Japan after detecting possible anomalies

30 Jan. (EUROPA PRESS) –

A reactor at the Takahama nuclear power plant, in southern Japan, has automatically interrupted its activity on Monday after the activation of an alert for possible anomalies, the companies responsible for these facilities have reported.

Specifically, the reactor, one of the four that this Kansai Electric Power plant has, has been deactivated at around 3:20 p.m. (local time) due to a drastic decrease in the amount of neutrons, with no evidence of others for the moment. problems in surrounding areas, according to the Kiodo news agency.

Nuclear energy continues to be a key element for Japan, despite the fact that it revised its strategy after the Fukushima disaster in 2011. The authorities then decided to pause their commitment to atomic energy, with specific commitments not to build new reactors or replace existing ones. that they were becoming obsolete.

However, at the end of 2022, the Government of Japan agreed to extend the useful life of nuclear reactors beyond the current limit, which stands at 60 years, in a context of global energy crisis. In the last fiscal year, only 13.4 percent of the energy consumed in Japan was its own.