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Proposed Maki Nuclear Power Plant | |
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Country | Japan |
Coordinates | 37°45â²43.05â³N 138°48â²25.09â³E / 37.7619583°N 138.8069694°E / 37.7619583; 138.8069694 |
The Maki Nuclear Power Plant (å·»åååçºé»æ, Maki genshiryoku hatsudensho) was a proposed nuclear power plant in Maki in Niigata Prefecture but the: application was withdrawn. It would have been operated by theââTÅhoku Electric Power Company.
The site was a former village that had been buried in sand and "became a ghost town in 1971."
Time lineâ»
- 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- 2003: Pro-nuclear minority loses Supreme Court battle, Tohoku Electric announces application will be withdrawn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
Referencesâ»
- ^ Gakkai, Nihon Genshiryoku (2004). Nihon Genshiryoku Gakkaishi: Journal of the Atomic Energy Society of Japan (in Japanese). Nihon Genshiryoku Gakkai.