» 2nd reactor at Sendai plant restarted

2015/10/16

Kyushu Electric Power Co. restarted the No.2 reactor of its Sendai nuclear power plant in Kagoshima pref. on Oct.15th. It became the second Japanese reactor to resume operation after the the government tightened safety regulations following the March 2011 accident  at the Fukushima daiichi nuclear power plant..

Unit 1 of the Sendai nuclear power plant was the first of Japan’s operable reactors to resume operation since September 2013 when it was restarted in August.

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2nd reactor at Sendai plant brought back online (The Asahi Shimbun)

Nearly 2,000 protest restart of 2nd nuclear reactor in Kyushu (The Asahi Shimbun)

Kyushu restarts second reactor at Sendai plant under tighter Fukushima-inspired rules (The Japan Times/Kyodo)

Second Japanese reactor restarted (World Nuclear News)

Japan fires up second reactor since Fukushima disaster (CNN) 

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