Japan shuts down a nuclear reactor

Tokyo-Sana

Japan announced the suspension of the Fukui nuclear reactor for delays in the operators' implementation of necessary anti-terrorism standards.

The Japanese newspaper The Japan Times reported that "the reactor located in central Japan was stopped after only four months of restarting it," noting that the Mihama Nuclear Unit No. 3 operating in the reactor entered work last June for the first time in about 10 years after the government implemented the new rules that It was developed after the Fukushima disaster in 2011.

The Fukui reactor was shut down after the Fukushima nuclear plant disaster, caused by a massive earthquake and tsunami.