Tokyo: Japan has finally closed the last of its 50 nuclear reactors for maintenance, leaving the nation without nuclear-generated electricity following the 2011 atomic disaster at Fukushima.
Hokkaido Electric Power Co shut down Reactor 3 at Tomari Nuclear Power Plant on the northern Japanese island. It is the first time in 42 years that none of Japan’s nuclear reactors is in operation.
Japanese power companies have been unable to reactivate their idled reactors because of public fears about nuclear power following the disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station, the world’s worst atomic accident since the 1986 Chernobyl meltdown.
The Fukushima plant, run by Tokyo Electric Power Co, suffered core meltdowns at three of its six reactors after it was struck by a magnitude-9 earthquake and resulting tsunami in March 2011. A series of blasts and fires caused the plant to release massive amounts of radiation into the environment.
The government has repeatedly warned of a possible power crunch unless idled reactors are reactivated.
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