(Ikata) Town mayor gives nod to restarting reactor in western Japan
A town mayor in western Japan gave approval Thursday to restart a nuclear reactor the town hosts, bringing closer the resumption of the third reactor in Japan under tougher safety rules introduced after the 2011 Fukushima crisis.
"I will accept the resumption," Ikata Mayor Kazuhiko Yamashita told Ehime Gov. Tokihiro Nakamura at the prefectural office building in Matsuyama, referring to the No. 3 unit at Shikoku Electric Power Co.'s Ikata plant.
The reactor cleared the Nuclear Regulation Authority's screening process in July, becoming the fifth reactor that has been acknowledged by regulators as safe enough to restart in line with a set of tougher safety requirements introduced in the wake of Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant disaster.
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