Japan: Meti Modifies '40/60' Rule for Reactor Extensions

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Japan's economics ministry is holding to the existing 60-year legal ceiling for reactor operating lives, but pushing for a modification that would allow credit for time lost in safety reviews in determining the age of reactors.

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