Unit 3 was reactivated using plutonium-uranium mixed oxide fuel on 12 August 2016 and began providing electricity to the grid three days later.

[1] On 13 December 2017, the Hiroshima High Court issued a temporary injunction to halt the operation of the Ikata 3 nuclear reactor until September 2018.

The upper and lower internals of the reactor were replaced in order to accommodate more control rods and allow for higher fuel burnup.

In this evacuation drill some 10.000 people were taken out of the area round the nuclear power plant, with buses, helicopters and boats of the Maritime Self-Defense Force.

The residents in the town of Ikata, commanded by disaster announcements on the radio to gather at a junior high school.

[10] On 27 June, Shikoku Electric completed loading 157 fuel assemblies, of which 16 uranium-plutonium mixed oxide (MOX).

[13] In January 2020 the High Court passed a further injunction against the operation of unit 3, again in part because an active fault nearby could not be ruled out as a full geological survey of the area had not been conducted.

The Japan Self Defense Forces are deployed to stall Godzilla and defend the facility, fearing that a direct attack against him could cause a nuclear explosion and destroy the planet.

Thankfully, the Super X-III aircraft comes to the rescue and temporarily freezes Godzilla before he can begin attacking the power plant.