Headline : Japan regulator blocks plan to restart Tsuruga nuclear unit

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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan's nuclear regulators concluded Friday that the Tsuruga No. 2 reactor does not meet stricter safety rules imposed after the Fukushima crisis, saying that a fault running underneath the offline unit could be active.

It is the first time the Nuclear Regulation Authority has effectively decided not to approve a plan to restart an idled reactor under post-Fukushima regulations. The nuclear disaster was triggered by a powerful earthquake and ensuing tsunami that hit northeastern Japan in March 2011.

Japan Atomic Power Co., the operator of the Tsuruga nuclear power plant in the central prefecture of Fukui, requested that regulators continue their safety assessment during their meeting. It applied in 2015 to restart the reactor.

"We will conduct additional research. We are not thinking of scrapping" the unit, Japan Atomic Power President Mamoru Muramatsu told reporters in Mihama, Fukui.

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