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Japan's nuclear re-start bogged down in safety checks and paperwork
2014-02-09 05:37:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Hundreds of technicians and engineers are camped out in Tokyo hotels trying to revive Japan's nuclear industry, shut down in the wake of the Fukushima disaster almost three years ago. It's proving a hard slog. A new, more independent regulator is in place, asking difficult questions and seeking to impose tougher safety rules on powerful utilities that were largely their own masters for the past 50 years. The Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) was created in 2012 and set new safety guidelines...
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Category:Electronics and Electrical