From The Japan Times:
Japanese utility begins loading fuel at reactor for late July restart
Shikoku Electric Power Co. started loading nuclear fuel Friday into a reactor at its Ikata power plant, paving the way for a scheduled restart next month.
The utility plans to reactivate the No. 3 unit at the plant in Ehime Prefecture on July 26. The company envisions beginning electricity generation three days later and resuming commercial operation in mid-August.
The pressurized-water reactor using uranium-plutonium mixed oxide, or MOX, fuel, will be the fifth unit to be reactivated under tougher regulations introduced in the wake of the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster.
Emphasis mine. This is how you do it. Do not try to make something into what it is obviously not. Alt.energy will not ever be equivalent to baseload generating capacity. Study the problem, fix it and then get on with business as usual. I would greatly prefer if they started developing Thorium fuel reactors but that is something for the future.
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