A Japanese utility has become the first since the Fukushima nuclear disaster to advance plans to build a new reactor in Japan as the country pivots back to atomic power 14 years after the catastrophe.
Kansai Electric Power said on Tuesday it would resume a survey into whether it could build a new reactor at Mihama in Fukui prefecture. The project had been suspended after a tsunami in 2011 caused the country’s worst nuclear power accident.
Resuming the review marks the first push by a Japanese power company to advance concrete plans to construct a nuclear energy plant from scratch since the disaster.
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