Protest against nuclear reactor restart

Protest against nuclear reactor restart

OI, Japan - People sit on a road around the Oi nuclear power plant in the town of Oi, Fukui Prefecture, on the Sea of Japan coast, in the early hours of July 1, 2012, in a protest against the restart of a reactor at the plant. Kansai Electric Power Co. said it plans to pull out control rods that have contained fission reactions from 9 p.m. on July 1 at the plant's No. 3 reactor.

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