Restart of Sendai nuclear plant

Japan’s regional authorities approve restart of Sendai nuclear plant

Protests outside government offices on Friday showed there is still anti-nuclear sentiment amongst the Japanese publicndai 

Regional authorities in Japan on Friday approved the restart of the idled Sendai nuclear plant of Kyushu Electric Power Co, Reuters said. The move paves the way for a revival of the stalled industry, more than three years after the Fukushima disaster. The two-reactor Sendai plant is located 1,000km southwest of Tokyo in Kagoshima prefecture. On Friday, 38 of the 47 members of Kagoshima’s prefectural assembly backed the restart. The government of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has pushed to restart the fleet of 48 offline reactors.

---RT