Japan's last nuclear reactor going offline

TOKYO, Japan - An operator at 5:04 p.m. on May 5, 2012, looks at a display in the head office of Hokkaido Electric Power Co. in Sapporo, Hokkaido, that shows output of the No. 3 reactor at its Tomari nuclear power plant in the village in the prefecture. The reactor, Japan's last operating commercial nuclear reactor, is set to go offline late the same day for mandatory routine maintenance, leaving the nation without atomic-generated electricity for the first time in 42 years in the wake of the quake-triggered Fukushima nuclear crisis in March 2011. (Pool photo)

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