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Japan set to return to nuclear power after hiatus
Published Mon, Aug 10, 2015 · 09:50 PM
Tokyo
JAPAN will on Tuesday begin restarting its nuclear power programme, officials said, after a two-year shutdown sparked by public fears following the Fukushima crisis.
The restart comes more than four years after a quake-sparked tsunami triggered meltdowns at the Fukushima plant, prompting the shutdown of Japan's stable of reactors in the world's worst atomic crisis in a generation.
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