United We Stand, Divided We Fall..........
Japan’s first nuclear reactor to pass new safety rules implemented after the 2011 Fukushima disaster will start Tuesday.
Kyushu Electric Power Co. will begin bringing online the No. 1 reactor at its Sendai facility on Aug. 11, start power generation as early as Aug. 14 and return it to normal operations next month, the company said in a statement Monday.
Two of its reactors on Japan’s southern island of Kyushu are the first to pass safety checks set by the Nuclear Regulation Authority, the agency created after the Fukushima disaster, and to overcome
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“The Sendai restart is obviously a very big positive for the industry overall and for Kyushu in particular,” Polina Diyachkina, an analyst at Macquarie Group Ltd. in Tokyo, said by phone Monday.
“Going forward, the restarts approval process will be smoother and faster.”
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...st-nuclear-reactor-under-post-fukushima-rules
