By Megumi Yamanaka and Taku Kato
Feb. 25 (Bloomberg) -- Tokyo Electric Power Co., Asia’s biggest generator, shut a nuclear reactor north of Tokyo after an alarm sounded. No radiation leaked.
The company manually shut the No. 1 reactor, with 460 megawatts of capacity, at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear facility at 8:49 a.m. today, it said on its Web site. The alarm signaled high pressure levels inside the reactor, it said. A pipe connected to a pressure valve was later found to have uncoupled, according to the statement.
Regular maintenance at the reactor was completed on Feb. 21. The company didn’t say when the plant can be restarted.
To contact the reporter on this story: Megumi Yamanaka in Tokyo at myamanaka@bloomberg.net; Taku Kato in Tokyo at tkato6@bloomberg.net.
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