TEPCO : Press Release | Performing a Series of Functional Tests for the Entire Plant of the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Station Unit No.6 after the Niigata-Chuetsu-Oki Earthquake (Evaluation of the plant status when generating power at approx. 50% of the rated output)

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Press Release (Sep 04,2009)
Performing a Series of Functional Tests for the Entire Plant of the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Station Unit No.6 after the Niigata-Chuetsu-Oki Earthquake (Evaluation of the plant status when generating power at approx. 50% of the rated output)

The Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Station Unit No.6 (ABWR: 1,356MW) had been shut 
down since the Niigata-Chuetsu-Oki Earthquake occurred on July 16, 2007. On August 25, 
2009, we started a series of functional tests for the entire plant, and are performing 
the pre-planned tests. 

We re-started the generation on August 31, 2009. Keeping the generating power at approx. 
50% of the rated output, we have performed various pre-planned tests by 9:00 a.m. of 
September 4, and confirmed these results to be satisfactory. 

Based on these results of the tests, we will raise the generating power to approx. 75% 
of the rated output. Then we will perform the pre-planned tests carefully.

We will disclose test evaluation results accordingly.