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Oct 2024
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Japan's Tohoku Elec restarts Onagawa rea...

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Tohoku Electric Power has resumed operations of one reactor at its Onagawa nuclear power plant in northern Japan, for the first time since the Fukushima nuclear disaster in 2011.

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