Sendai nuclear plant to begin commercial operation Sept 10, page-2

Output of the No. 1 reactor at the Sendai nuclear power plant in Kagoshima Prefecture reached full capacity on Saturday, 18 days after the unit was restarted, according to Kyushu Electric Power Co. <9508>, the operator of the plant in southwestern Japan.

The output was raised to the maximum level of 890,000 kilowatts after operations of the reactor were resumed on Thursday. Kyushu Electric halted work to raise the reactor's output on Aug. 21, as it found some cooling water pipes damaged and seawater leaking.

The Sendai reactor was reactivated on Aug. 11, becoming the first reactor in Japan to go back online under the country's new safety standards introduced after the 2011 triple meltdown at the disaster-crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant of Tokyo Electric Power Co. <9501>.