Shika 2 is Hokuriku Electric's 1,108 MWe (net) ABWR, offline since March 2011. Its NRA review (applied 2014) was complicated by the 1 January 2024 Noto Peninsula earthquake, which forced reassessment of nearby active faults; restart is expected to take years.
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Current state
| Status | Under review |
| Country | Japan |
| Location | Shika, Ishikawa Prefecture |
| Plant | Shika |
| Unit | 2 |
| Operator | Hokuriku Electric Power |
| Reactor type | BWR |
| Net capacity (MWe) | 1,108 |
| Restart type | Post-Fukushima restart |
| Shut down | 2011-03-11 |
| Years offline | 15.6 |
| Regulator | NRA conformity review in progress (applied 2014-08-12); in March 2023 the NRA concluded faults under the site are not active |
Notes
ABWR recorded as BWR. No restart target published.
Timeline
- 2011-03-11 — Shika 2 entered an outage. (source)
- 2014-08-12 — Hokuriku applied for the NRA conformity review. (source)
- 2023-03 — The NRA concluded that none of the faults under the Shika site is active. (source)
- 2024-01-29 — Reporting after the Noto quake said fault reassessment would likely delay restart by years. (source)
The timeline is append-only: corrections are added as new entries. Stated targets appear in the current-state table, never as milestones.
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Sources
- Current Status of Nuclear Power Plants in Japan as of August 7, 2026 — Japan Atomic Industrial Forum (JAIF) (primary), checked 2026-10-11
- Nuclear Power in Japan — World Nuclear Association, checked 2026-10-11
- Restart of Shika Nuclear Power Plant 'Likely to Take Years' — The Japan News (Yomiuri), checked 2026-10-11
- Japan's Nuclear Power Targets from Impossible (2030) to Hardly Achievable (2040) — Renewable Energy Institute, checked 2026-10-11