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declared for the reactor and while the utility is drawing up an application to the NRA for
permission for change in reactor installation license, as of 1 July 2016, no application had been
submitted.
In the case of Ohma, which was 40 percent complete by March 2011, the plant owner, the Electric
Power Development Company (EPDC), also known as J-Power, declared that reinforced safety
measures are to be implemented that take into account the lessons learned from the Fukushima
accident, which include tsunami countermeasures, ensuring power supplies, ensuring heat
removal functions, and severe accident responses. The construction works for these measures
was scheduled to begin in November 2015 and to be completed in December 2020. 641 The budget
for construction of the additional safety features is some JPY130 billion ($1.1 billion). J-Power
applied to the NRA on 16 December 2014 for review of the Ohma reactor. 642 Ohma is planned to
operate with a 100 percent plutonium MOX core. 643 Prospects for completion of construction and
operation are directly linked to ongoing lawsuits, one by local citizens and another from the city
of Hakodate, both of which are seeking cancellation of the project. Hakodate is challenging both
the central government and J-Power in the first such lawsuit in Japan. 644
Although there remain major obstacles for both reactors, with little public information on the
exact status and advancement of construction, even though no planned grid connection date has
been communicated, considering that some construction work is reportedly ongoing, for the time
being, WNISR reintegrates Shimane-3 and Ohma in its listing of reactors under construction.
Pakistan operates three reactors (two Pressurized Water Reactors from China and one
Pressurized Heavy Water Reactor from Canada) that have a net capacity of 690 MW and provided
4.3 TWh in 2015, down from 4.58 TWh in 2014; 645 nuclear power contributed 4.4 percent of the
country’s electricity in 2015, 0.9 percent below the historic maximum of 5.3 percent in 2012.
In the city of Karachi, construction of the first of two reactor units purchased from China started
in August 2015, with Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif presiding over the event. 646 Reportedly, this is
likely to be China’s first export of Hualong reactor design. 647 There has been widespread civil
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