Japan Atomic Power Company’s Tokai No.2 is slated to receive OCCTO subsidies and has been waiting to restart for a long time. Nevertheless, despite receiving an initial regulatory green light in 2018, the 1.1 GW plant sits idle and rarely makes headlines.

While the government has set a policy to restart nuclear power facilities, Tokai No.2 is struggling to implement additional safety measures and garner local support. Still, officials have recently started talking up the prospects of a working Tokai No.2, suggesting that a restart may be on the cards as soon as the next few years.

In recent issues, Japan NRG looked at the situation around TEPCO’s Kashiwazaki-Kariwa NPP Unit 6 and Hokkaido Electric’s Tomari NPP Unit 3. Like Tokai No.2, they were selected for subsidies under the LTDA scheme for decarbonized power sources, and are frequently in the spotlight for their likelihood to restart.

To conclude our deep dive into the NPPs that won LTDA funding, it’s crucial to determine what to expect from Tokai No.2. Strategically, it’s an important nuclear power facility, but in some ways, it seems to have been left behind.