{"id":30913,"date":"2021-04-14T16:42:18","date_gmt":"2021-04-14T07:42:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/14\/japanese-regulator-bans-restart-tepco-nuclear-plant-over-safety-breaches"},"modified":"2021-04-14T16:42:18","modified_gmt":"2021-04-14T07:42:18","slug":"japanese-regulator-bans-restart-at-nuclear-plant-over-safety-breaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=30913","title":{"rendered":"Japanese regulator bans restart at nuclear plant over safety breaches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fukushima plant operator Tepco suffers blow to plans to resume at its only operable atomic facility <\/p>\n<p>The operator of the wrecked <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/fukushima\">Fukushima<\/a> nuclear plant has been prevented from restarting its only operable atomic facility after a series of safety breaches, dealing a significant blow to Japanese attempts to resume <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/nuclearpower\">nuclear power<\/a> generation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/japan\">Japan<\/a>\u2019s nuclear regulator is to issue a \u201ccorrective action order\u201d on Wednesday that would ban Tokyo Electric Power (Tepco) from transporting new uranium fuel to its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2017\/dec\/28\/fears-of-another-fukushima-as-tepco-plans-to-restart-worlds-biggest-nuclear-plant\">Kashiwazaki-Kariwa<\/a> nuclear plant in Niigata prefecture or loading fuel rods into its reactors.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/14\/japanese-regulator-bans-restart-tepco-nuclear-plant-over-safety-breaches\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fukushima plant operator Tepco suffers blow to plans to resume at its only operable atomic facility The operator of the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant has been prevented from restarting its only operable atomic facility after a series of safety breach&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,493,65,980,88,846,570,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-energy","category-environment","category-fukushima","category-japan","category-japan-disaster","category-nuclear-power","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30913"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30914,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30913\/revisions\/30914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}