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Japan Tohoku to restart nuclear unit after oil leak

Sun Jun 21, 2009 11:03pm EDT

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TOKYO, June 22 (Reuters) - Japanese utility Tohoku Electric Power Co (9506.T) said on Monday it expects to restart its 524-megawatt Onagawa No.1 nuclear reactor later in the day after unplanned repair work.

Tohoku manually started to shut down the unit on June 11 after finding an oil leak. There was no radiaction leak outside the plant. (Reporting by Osamu Tsukimori)



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