Japan’s second nuclear reactor in Sendai restarts

#KyushuElectricPowerCo #sendai #ShinzoAbe #fukushima #nuclearreactor In spite of strong opposition to nuclear power among the public, Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has ordered the restart of the Sendai nuclear reactor – his intention is to cut fuel bills and he wants atomic power to account for 20-22 percent of the country's energy mix by 2030.
It is a tough ask because the goal is widely seen as unrealistic, and opposition to nuclear power remains widespread. This has been reported in timesofindia.indiatimes.com dated 15 October 2015.

However, Japan has restarted a second reactor at the Sendai nuclear plant on the southwestern island of Kyushu – it had been shut down after the 2011 Fukushima disaster. This restart marks progress for Japan's utilities, which have been hit by huge losses following forced shut down of nuclear plants for safety checks.
Kyushu Electric Power Co had started the No. 1 unit at the Sendai plant in August after getting necessary approval from the country's atomic regulator – it took them two years of reviews and equipment checks. Now, the No. 2 unit is expected to begin power generation on Oct. 21 and is enter commercial operations from around mid-November.
The Fukushima disaster was the worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl 25 years earlier and the meltdowns at the Fukushima Daiichi plant released large quantities of radioactive material and forced 160,000 to flee from their homes – many of them never returned.
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