Maki Nuclear Power Plant
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The Maki Nuclear Power Plant (巻原子力発電所, Maki genshiryoku hatsudensho) was a proposed nuclear power plant in Maki in Niigata Prefecture but the application was withdrawn.[1] It would have been operated by the Tōhoku Electric Power Company.
The site was a former village that had been buried in sand and became a ghost town in 1971.
Time line
- 1982 initial application for permission to build the plant
- 1983 Analysis halted
- 1994 the mayor of Maki called for the mothballed plan to be revisited. During the same year there was a local referendum.
- 1995: Mayor resigns, replaced with anti-nuclear mayor
- 1996: Anti-nuclear mayor holds referendum, townspeople veto reactor
- 1999: Ghost town land sold to anti-nuclear faction
- 2003: Pro-nuclear minority loses Supreme Court battle, Tohoku Electric announces application will be withdrawn
- 2 February 2004 withdrawal of application
References
- ^ Gakkai, Nihon Genshiryoku (2004). Nihon Genshiryoku Gakkaishi: Journal of the Atomic Energy Society of Japan (in Japanese). Nihon Genshiryoku Gakkai.
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