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December 15, 2014

Takahama plant set to pass new rules for restart

http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/english/news/nuclear.html

Dec. 15, 2014 - Updated 11:32 UTC+1

Japan's nuclear regulator appears set to present a draft assessment that will effectively approve a restart of the Takahama nuclear power plant in Fukui Prefecture.

The Nuclear Regulation Authority will disclose the assessment at its meeting on Wednesday.

Authority experts have been evaluating whether the No.3 and No.4 reactors at the plant meet new government regulations introduced after the Fukushima Daiichi plant accident in March 2011.

If no problems are found in the draft at the meeting, the authority will then gather public opinion on it for 30 days before officially adopting the document.

Regulators have so far screened restart applications from power companies for a total of 20 reactors at 13 plants across the country.

Takahama will be the second plant to pass the new regulations, following the Sendai plant in Kagoshima Prefecture in September.

But it will take time until the plant can be restarted as operator Kansai Electric Power Company still needs permission for and inspections of its design, as well as local consent. The facility is unlikely to go online before spring at the earliest.

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