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TOKYO (Reuters) - Three Japanese towns would be willing to restart their nuclear reactors if they pass government stress tests, two were against the idea but most were undecided, a newspaper survey suggested Saturday.
The stress tests are aimed at showing the reactors can withstand the scale of disaster that crippled the Fukushima reactors last year.
The Fukushima Daiichi plant was struck by an earthquake and tsunami on March 11, the world's worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl in 1986, triggering reactor meltdowns and radiation leaks that caused mass evacuations and widespread contamination.
The three plants that might win approval to restart are the Kashiwazaki Kariwa plant operated by Tokyo Electric, the Takahama plant operated by Kansai Electric and Kyushu Electric's Genkai plant, the Sankei newspaper said.
Two local governments said they rejected the tests and 24 said they were undecided, according to the survey, a sign that even U.N. experts' approval of the tests isn't enough to dispel deep-rooted mistrust of the country's nuclear policy.
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The government hopes the stress tests will help persuade a wary public that it is safe to restart some of the reactors and avoid an economically crippling power crunch during the peak summer season.
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