Of TOKYO (AFP) - Japan ageing of the Hamaoka nuclear plant located near a tectonic fault southwest of Tokyo, completed the closure of all its reactors Saturday to prevent any accident due to a natural disaster.
Reactor of the plant number five stopped power generation and has been closed to 1: 00 pm GMT (0400), said the spokesman for Chubu Electric Power Co. Hiroaki Oobayashi.
"The decision was confirmed after we have inserted all 205 control bars in the reactor", he added.
Prime Minister Naoto Kan had previously called for its closure, eight weeks after a massive earthquake and tsunami damaged the nuclear power plant in Fukushima Daiichi northeast of Tokyo, triggering the worst Atomic crisis of the world in 25 years.
The plant in Hamaoka, located 200 kilometres (125 miles) southwest of Tokyo, has five units of reactor, but only two have been running recently - numbers four and five. Number four reactor was suspended Friday.
Reactors one and two, built in the 1970s, were arrested in 2009, and three are under maintenance.
Seismologists have warned that a major earthquake is overdue in the Tokai area southwest of Tokyo where the Hamaoka plant long.
Hamaoka represents about 12 per cent of the production of Chubu Electric, which serves a large part of the industrial heart of the Japan, including many of Toyota Motor factories.
Kan said that the plant would remain closed while a higher sea wall was built and other measures are taken to prevent a major earthquake and tsunami. The local media, said the suspension was to last approximately two years.
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