Japan Utility to Survey First Nuclear Reactor Since Fukushima: Nikkei
The Kansai Electric Power Co Takahama nuclear plant. Countries including Japan are increasingly embracing nuclear energy in light of rising power needs.
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Japan’s Kansai Electric Power Co. will begin studying plans for a nuclear power reactor, the first step toward constructing a new one since the 2011 Fukushima disaster, Nikkei reported.
The regional utility, which currently operates seven reactors in western Japan, will start geological surveys at its Mihama Nuclear Power Plant, Nikkei reported without citing where it got the information. Kansai Electric will announce plans to resume studying new reactor builds in the coming days, the report said, after such surveys had been suspended since the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi plant.