Kansai Electric Power restarts Ohi reactor

• Kansai Electric Power restarts Ohi reactor
  Japan's Kansai Electric Power restarted the Unit 3 reactor at its Ohi nuclear plant. A nuclear reaction restarted Sunday afternoon, the utility announced on its website. The unit is the first to restart since all of Japan's reactors were taken offline for post-Fukushima Daiichi safety checks. Star Tribune (Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minn.)/The Associated Press (7/1)

• Japan restarts nuclear reactor amid protests MaltaToday Last month, the prime minister urged support, saying a return to nuclear power was essential for the economy. All 50 of Japan's nuclear plants were shut after the meltdown at Fukushima, which was triggered by a tsunami and earthquake. The crisis was ...

  Japan Finds it Hard to Abandon Nuclear Energy IDN InDepthNews | Analysis That Matters LONDON (IDN) - The restart of the Ohi nuclear reactor on July 1 in Fukui prefecture, near the centre of the Japan Sea Coast, points to a momentous trend nearly 15 months after the Fukushima meltdown, particularly as this is the first nuclear site to go ...

  Japan reactivates idle nuclear reactor amid protests MassNewsMedia The Fukushima meltdown, the worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl in 1986, saw radiation spread over homes and farmland in a large swath of northeast Japan. Nobody is officially recorded as having died as a direct result of the meltdowns, but tens of ... MassNewsMedia

  Protests greet reboot of Japanese nuclear reactor New Scientist The reactor is the first to be re-activated since the catastrophic meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear facility following the earthquake and tsunami on 11 March last year. The event prompted the country to close down its 54 reactors for safety ...

  Oi's reactor 3 first to go critical after Fukushima The Japan Times ... in Fukui Prefecture attained a self-sustaining chain reaction, or criticality, early Monday after being restarted the previous night, becoming the first in the nation reactivated since the Fukushima meltdown crisis effectively shut down the nuclear ...