The government restarts the Oi power plant, it is the first after the Fukushima crisis

TOKYO – The Japanese government has ordered the restart of reactors No. 3 and 4 of the Oi nuclear power plant, in what is the first re-ignition of the plants from the Fukushima crisis following the earthquake / tsunami of March 11, 2011.

The definitive go-ahead, according to NHK public television, has matured in the summit held between Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda and some of his ministers involved in Japanese atomic politics, including that of Industry, Yukio Edano, and that of Nuclear Emergency, Goshi Hosono. The meeting followed the face-to-face meeting of the morning between Noda and the governor of Fukui, Issei Nishikawa, whose prefecture houses the Oi power plant and a total of 14 of the 50 reactors currently present in Japan.

Nishikawa expressed his favorable opinion, paving the way for the restart of the first reactors from the serious Fukushima crisis following the earthquake / tsunami of 11 March 2011.

(June 16, 2012)