女川２号機再稼働、１１月に延期　訓練準備に遅れ―東北電

　東北電力は１８日、女川原発２号機（宮城県）の再稼働時期を９月ごろから１１月ごろに延期すると発表した。原子炉への核燃料装荷前に実施する訓練の準備に、遅れが生じたため。燃料装荷は９月ごろを目指す。
　同社によると、再稼働の前提となる安全対策工事が５月に完了。自然災害などを想定した訓練を行い、今月中にも燃料装荷する予定だった。しかし、原子力規制庁による現場確認を受けて訓練に影響を与える可能性がある仮設倉庫の解体が決まったものの、撤去作業に時間がかかっているという。
　延期により火力発電の燃料費削減効果がなくなるなどとして、今期の経常利益は８０億円程度減少する見込み。連結業績への影響は軽微だとしている。（2024/07/18-17:57）

Tohoku Electric Power Co. has announced a decision to put off the planned restart of the No. 2 reactor at its Onagawa nuclear power plant in northeastern Japan by two months to around November.
   The postponement, announced Thursday, stems from a delay in preparations for training that Tohoku Electric must carry out before loading nuclear fuel into the reactor at the power station in Miyagi Prefecture. The company aims to load the fuel into the reactor around September.
   Tohoku Electric completed work to strengthen its safety measures at the plant in May. The company hoped to load the fuel as early as this month after conducting the required training to practice its responses to natural disasters and other situations.
   But it had to change the plan because it is taking longer than expected to dismantle and remove a temporary warehouse, which was decided after an on-site inspection by the Secretariat of the Nuclear Regulation Authority found that the structure could affect the training.
   Due to the postponement, Tohoku Electric expects its ordinary profit for fiscal 2024 to decrease 8 billion yen from the projected level. But the impact of the decrease on the company's consolidated earnings is believed to be limited.