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

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

Workers in the main control room take procedures to restart 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 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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