Kansai Electric eyes restarting nuclear reactor on May 17

Kansai Electric Power Co. is planning to reactivate its idled nuclear reactor on the Sea of Japan coast on May 17 at the earliest, sources close to the matter said Tuesday.The planned restart of the No. 4 unit at the Takahama plant in Fukui Prefecture, central Japan, is expected to bring the total number of online commercial nuclear reactors across Japan to four.The Nos. 3 and 4 reactors passed the stricter safety standards introduced after the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster and restarted in February last year. But immediately after that, the No. 4 was shut down due to a technical …READ FULL ARTICLE