Last Reactor of 50 in Japan Is Shut Down

New York Times: Japan's last operating reactor was taken offline Saturday, as public distrust created by last year's nuclear disaster forced the nation to at least temporarily do without atomic power for the first time in 42 years. The reactor, at the Tomari plant on the northern island of Hokkaido, was shut down for legally mandated maintenance, said its operator, Hokkaido Electric. As Japan's 50 functional commercial reactors have been shut down one by one for maintenance, none have been restarted because of...

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