Japan’s power crunch seen continuing despite nuclear plant restarts

Japan is predicted to proceed seeing an electrical energy provide squeeze and is more likely to depend on growing older thermal energy vegetation, regardless of as much as 9 nuclear reactors being put into operation by this winter.

A complete of 10 nuclear reactors in Japan have cleared new requirements set by the Nuclear Regulation Authority and have acquired the inexperienced gentle from native municipalities. Of them, six are at the moment in operation, together with the No. 4 reactor at Kansai Electrical Energy Co’s Oi nuclear energy plant in Fukui Prefecture, which was restarted on Friday after it had been offline for a routine inspection.