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As mentioned earlier, the first LWR in Japan was the JAERIJPDR which started operating in 1963. The reactor is of the plate construction type and the material was SA302B modified. The first commercial nuclear power plant was JAPCO s Tokai 1 which went into operation in 1966. The RPV was the Calder HaU-type made of JIS SB46 modified (Coltuf 26 equivalent) plate steel. After that, JAPCO constructed the Tsuruga 1 BWR plant in 1965. The Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) and Kansai Electric Power Company (KEPCO) also decided to construct the Fukushima 1... 

Home page of The Kansai Electric Power Company, Inc., http //www.kepco.co.jp/rd/topics/t 3.htm (2003). 

The experimental results referred to here were accomplished in cooperation with Kansai Electric Company Ltd. (KEPCO) and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. (MHI), and high pressure combustion tests were conducted at the Central Research Institute of the Electric Power Institute (CRIEPI). Participating members of KEPCO and CRIEPI are gratefully acknowledged. 

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