Japanese reactor restart applications to be filed from July

摘要

The commissioners of Japan's Nuclear Regulation Authority have approved new regulatory safety requirements and a plan to promulgate them in July, allowing power companies to start filing reactor restart applications. The NRA still needs approval from cabinet ministers led by pro-nuclear Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to authorize the safety requirements as law. Abe said during a televised press conference from Belfast, Northern Ireland that his government's nuclear policy will "give the top priority to plant safety."