SHARE AND DISCUSSTweetJapan’s cabinet approved bills on Tuesday aimed at bolstering nuclear safety regulations following last year’s Fukushima disaster. TOKYO: Japan’s cabinet approved bills on Tuesday aimed at bolstering nuclear safety regulations following last year’s Fukushima disaster, including one that would put a 40-year cap on the operational life of nuclear reactors. The approval came as a team of International Atomic Energy Agency experts generally endorsed “stress test” results at two idled reactors at a plant in western Japan, bolstering the Tokyo government’s efforts to restart the facility, though the IAEA team said some safety…
Japan cabinet OKs bill to cap nuke reactor life
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