Monju Nuclear Plant Operator Ordered To Stop Restart Preparation

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday May 30, 2013 @04:29PM from the not-so-fast dept.

AmiMoJo writes "Japan's nuclear regulator has ordered the operator of the Monju fast-breeder reactor to suspend preparation for its restart until measures are put in place for its proper maintenance and management. The regulators acted after finding the operator had missed checkups on about 10,000 pieces of equipment. They ordered that sufficient manpower and funds be allocated for maintenance and management. The reactor in Tsuruga City, central Japan, is at the center of the nation's nuclear-fuel recycling policy. But its operator has been hampered by a series of problems."

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Re:Not a restart, Not a safety decision, lets not by OhANameWhatName · 2013-05-30 19:10 · Score: 0, Flamebait

try and scare us all away with the nuclear apocalypse bogeyman
He's 20km's wide, lives in the former Fukushima powerplant, explodes when you expose him to oxygen and pisses unmeasurable amounts of radiation into the ocean. But I'm not afraid, we're going fishing this weekend.