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A Shizuoka court has rejected the claims of 34 residents who sued in 2011 to end operations at Hamaoka units 3 to 5, and Chubu Electric says the ruling does not affect its results.
Kansai Electric estimates that rainwater entering past an upside-down cover plate, fitted in 2010, corroded a Mihama Unit 3 pipe through; it plans to restart the reactor on October 10 and resume full operation on November 4.
Kansai Electric powered down the Mihama Unit 3 reactor after workers found water dripping at three drops a second from a feedwater-heater valve fitting they could not isolate without a shutdown, and the utility has not set a restart date or identified a cause.
Chubu Electric has pulled its Hamaoka Units 3 and 4 restart applications after an independent inquiry found staff manipulated seismic wave selections for years and then built paperwork to disguise it, prompting the exit of both the president and chairman.
An outside panel has completed its investigation into how Chubu Electric wrongly assessed ground motion at Hamaoka Units 3 and 4, but the utility says only a redacted version will be published later and it still cannot quantify any hit to earnings.
Storm-damaged roads and a slow-moving power permit process have pushed Nittetsu Mining's copper mine project in Chile past its July-to-September target, and the company still won't say when output will begin or what it will cost.
Kansai Electric says its 826,000-kilowatt Mihama Unit 3 reactor, shut down in May after a high-pressure turbine steam leak, is scheduled to reconnect to the grid on September 15 once startup preparations following a casing-cap replacement are complete.
A loss-of-field alarm tripped the generator at Kansai Electric's Ohi Unit 3 on August 8, forcing an automatic reactor shutdown that the utility says caused no radioactive release, with the cause still under investigation.
An SSD backup drive holding 13.54 million customer records vanished from an unlocked cabinet at Kyushu Electric Power Transmission and Distribution, and METI has now received the company's formal account of what went wrong.
Tokyo Electric Power has drawn another ¥34.4bn from the Nuclear Damage Compensation and Decommissioning Facilitation Corporation, the 170th funding delivery tied to Fukushima compensation. The company said payments due by end-July will exceed the ¥11.5122tn it had already received from the body and the ¥188.9bn received under the compensation law. The transfer sits under the revised special business plan approved on March 31, which is a bureaucratic way of saying the pipeline is still very much open.