Maki Nuclear Power Plant

The Maki Nuclear Power Plant (巻原子力発電所) was a proposed nuclear power plant in Maki in Niigata Prefecture but the application was withdrawn. It would have been operated by the Tōhoku Electric Power Company.

The site was a former village that had been buried in sand and became a ghost town in 1971.

Time line

 * 1982 initial application for permission to build the plant
 * 1983 Analysis halted
 * 1994 the mayor of Maki called for the mothballed plan to be revisited. During the same year there was a local referendum.
 * 1995: Mayor resigns, replaced with anti-nuclear mayor
 * 1996: Anti-nuclear mayor holds referendum, townspeople veto reactor
 * 1999: Ghost town land sold to anti-nuclear faction
 * 2003: Pro-nuclear minority loses Supreme Court battle, Tohoku Electric announces application will be withdrawn
 * 2 February 2004 withdrawal of application