Japan reboots nuclear reactor after 2-yr lull amid safety concern

Workers in the main control room reactivate the No. 1 reactor at Kyushu Electric Power Co.'s Sendai nuclear plant in Satsumasendai, southwestern Japan, on Aug. 11, 2015. The reactor became the first one to resume operations since all the country's commercial reactors went offline by September 2013, following the tsunami-triggered Fukushima nuclear disaster in March 2011. (Pool photo)(Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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