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05-18-2017, 10:16 AM
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Japan restarts a**ther reactor
TOKYO: A Japanese utility on Wednesday switched on a nuclear reactor, the latest to come back in service despite deep public opposition in the aftermath of the Fukushima crisis.
Japan shut down all of its dozens of reactors after a powerful earthquake in March 2011 spawned a huge tsunami that led to meltdowns at the Fukushima nuclear plant, causing the world’s worst such accident since Cher**byl in 1986. But only a handful of reactors have come back online due to public opposition and as legal cases work their way through the courts. On Wednesday, Kansai Electric Power (Kepco) restarted the ** 4 reactor at the Takahama nuclear plant after a court in March cleared the move. The latest restart at the plant in Fukui prefecture, some 350 kilometres west of Tokyo, came after court battles that lasted more than a year during which a district court near Fukui ordered Kepco to suspend operations. The Fukui government, where the nuclear industry is a major employer, approved the reactor’s restart but concerned residents in neighbouring Shiga prefecture asked their local court to stop the move. أكثر... 
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