Fukushima? Why Not?

WillEater

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Japan's nuclear watchdog Wednesday gave a formal green light to the operator of the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant to restart two reactors, the first since the 2011 atomic crisis.

The Nuclear Regulation Authority handed its approval to the Tokyo Electric Power Co. following a month of public hearings, judging that the two reactors met the stricter safety standards introduced after the disaster, an NRA official told AFP.

The two reactors are situated at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear plant, one of the world's biggest and the largest in Japan.

Like many other nuclear power plants in the country, the plant in central Japan has been idle since the 2011 meltdown triggered by a tsunami after a 9.0-magnitude earthquake.

The tsunami overwhelmed reactor cooling systems at the Fukushima Daiichi plant in northeastern Japan, causing meltdowns and releasing radiation in the most dangerous nuclear disaster since Chernobyl in 1986.

TEPCO still needs to get local consent to bring the reactors online, which could take years.

Niigata Governor Ryuichi Yoneyama, who won the local election in 2016 for a four-year term, is known to be cautious about restarting Kashiwazaki-Kariwa.

"We will continue explaining to residents" to address their concerns, TEPCO spokesman Shinichi Nakakuki told AFP.

The company "ultimately" hopes to win approval from local authorities, Nakakuki added.
 

CoolKevin

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It's amazing how the actual impact to the ocean has been largely unreported. Well, never mind. It doesn't amaze me. I wonder how the sushi market in Japan survives!

they will ask questions when cancer rate rise, until then nothing, and then it is too late, (and it may also effect the population growth, (in another thread))
 

kunoichi

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EzikialRage

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This is why Nuclear power isn't as clean as people say it is. How is it clean if you got to bury waste in radioactive proof containers and how is it clear that if a major accident happens that people can't live near it for a many decades?