Japan will have no working nuclear reactors when its only operational plants go offline for regular maintenance in September, the main regulator said on Tuesday.
Japan will have no working nuclear reactors when its only operational plants go offline for regular maintenance in September, the main regulator said on Tuesday.

These are the No. 3 and No. 4 units at the Oi power plant in western Japan .

"I don't think any other reactors will come back online before then," Nuclear Regulation Authority Chairman Shunichi Tanaka told reporters at his weekly news conference.

If utilities want to take reactors back online under new authority regulations they will have to undergo tough, new tests that take at least six months.

Following the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant accident in March 2011 all Japan's 50 reactors were taken offline as they came up for their 13-month maintenance.

The two Oi reactors were permitted to restart to avoid a power shortage.

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