{"id":180676,"date":"2026-10-30T13:07:06","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T04:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=news&#038;p=180676&#038;lang=en"},"modified":"2026-10-30T13:07:06","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T04:07:06","slug":"genkai-reactor-3-restarts-after-inspection","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/news\/genkai-reactor-3-restarts-after-inspection\/","title":{"rendered":"Genkai reactor 3 restarts after inspection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kyushu Electric restarted reactor 3 at the Genkai nuclear power plant in Saga Prefecture at 11 a.m. on Oct. 27. The reactor had been undergoing a regular inspection since June 30. The work included replacing 64 of its 193 fuel assemblies and inspecting turbines. Power generation is scheduled to resume Oct. 29, followed by commercial operation on Nov. 25. Reactor 4 is scheduled to enter its own regular inspection in mid-November. <strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/kbc.co.jp\/news\/article.php?id=18407118&#038;ymd=2026-10-27\" target=\"_blank\">KBC News<\/a> \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kyuden.co.jp\/press\/2026\/261023b-1.html\" target=\"_blank\">Kyushu Electric Power Co<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/fnn_genkai-nuclear-plant_2025_cl.jpg?resize=1400%2C977&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Worker Exposed To Radiation At Genkai Nuclear Plant\" width=\"1400\" height=\"977\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-170892\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/fnn_genkai-nuclear-plant_2025_cl.jpg?w=1400&amp;ssl=1 1400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/fnn_genkai-nuclear-plant_2025_cl.jpg?resize=300%2C209&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/fnn_genkai-nuclear-plant_2025_cl.jpg?resize=1024%2C715&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/fnn_genkai-nuclear-plant_2025_cl.jpg?resize=768%2C536&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><br \/>\nPhoto: Wikimedia<\/p>\n<p>Get Fukuoka and Kyushu\u2019s top stories delivered to your inbox. The Now is Fukuoka Now\u2019s free biweekly newsletter featuring local news, events, culture, business, and community updates in English. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/mailmagazine\/\">Subscribe to The Now<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Summaries based on public content, errors may occur during translation. Images credited independently. Send feedback using <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/contact\/\">this <strong>form<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kyushu Electric restarted reactor 3 at the Genkai nuclear power plant in Saga Prefecture at 11 a.m. on Oct. 27. The reactor had been undergoing a regular inspection since June 30. The work included replacing 64&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30292,"featured_media":170892,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-180676","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","location-saga-prefecture","news-category-general","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/180676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30292"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180676"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}