A town assembly gave the green light on 18 December to resume operations at the Mihama-3 nuclear power plant in Fukui prefecture, western Japan.
Kansai Electric is keen to resume operation of the 780-MW pressurised water reactor unit in January. It has been offline for about a decade following the 2011 Fukushima-Daiichi accident.
In September Kansai Electric said work had been completed to extend the operational lifetime of the plant.
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