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Sendai Nuclear Power Station in Satsumasendai, Kagoshima prefecture, southern Japan, on Wednesday obtained the final permit needed to restart its reactors, paving the way for it to become the first to go back online under new safety standards introduced following the 2011 Fukushima disaster.
The two reactors at the nuclear power station would mark the country’s return to nuclear energy, as Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s pro-business government tries to put as many reactors back on-line as possible.