Kansai Electric Power, which serves Osaka and its industrial suburbs, will today restart Reactor 3 at its Mihama station in western Japan.
Kyiv. Ukraine. Ukraine Gate – June 23, 2021 – International News
The reactor is the oldest to be rebuilt since the 2011 disaster and needed special approval to extend its life beyond the standard 40-year limit. Most reactors in Japan remain closed after the accident, highlighting shortcomings in regulation and control.
Tatsujiro Suzuki, a former deputy head of the Cabinet’s Atomic Energy Commission, said he had doubts about how the restart was approved.
He said he was concerned about the lack of transparency and the use of subsidies to get the necessary approval to restart.
Mihama is one of 16 reactors to receive either preliminary or final approval to restart, compared to 54 reactors that once supplied about a third of Japan’s electricity to Fukushima. The public remains against nuclear energy, according to opinion polls.
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Source: Ukrgate
