» First nuclear reactor to go back online since Japan disaster met with protests

First nuclear reactor to go back online since Japan disaster met with protests

Posted on 7/2/2012 by

At the Ohi nuclear facility on Japan’s western shoreline Sunday, those workers went through the technical steps to reboot a reactor, the first to come back online since last year’s massive nuclear accident at Fukushima Daiichi.

The restart at Ohi — with potentially more to follow — will avert dire power shortages and sustain the economy, Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda has told the nation. But the restart also has divided the country, staging an increasingly hostile showdown between the government and those doubtful about its atomic safety claims.

Some political experts thought that Noda’s announcement two weeks ago about the

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