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Japan nuke reactor taken offline due to delayed safety steps

by Associated Press
| March 16, 2020 5:05 AM

TOKYO (AP) — The operator of a nuclear power plant in southern Japan was forced to shut down one of its reactors Monday because of a failure to meet the deadline for adding anti-terror safety facility made mandatory after the Fukushima disaster.

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