Overview
- Company president Hideaki Kato apologized at a special Oma town council committee meeting on Friday and said J‑Power cannot now give a target date for beginning required safety work.
- J‑Power had planned to announce a start-month this autumn but decided on September 10–11 to defer that disclosure because the Nuclear Regulation Authority’s review has taken longer than expected.
- The firm is also expected not to revise its existing 2030 target for commercial operation, leaving the plant’s full timetable effectively open-ended.
- The Oma project began construction in 2008 and applied to the new regulatory standards in 2014; safety upgrades have had six prior start-date postponements and the plant was once aimed to start around fiscal 2021.
- Continued delays mean prolonged costs and mounting uncertainty for local residents and officials, and they signal that completion will depend on the pace of detailed regulatory checks rather than J‑Power’s internal schedule.