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Japan restarted its first nuclear power plant on Tuesday morning under stricter safety standards that were introduced in July 2013 after the Fukushima disaster in 2011.

Kyushu Electric Power began removing control rods from a reactor at the Sendai nuclear power plant in southern Japan at 10:30 am Tuesday, the Wall Street Journal reported.

Japan is set to restart a mothballed nuclear reactor for the first time in two years on Tuesday, the operator said, as anti-atomic sentiment still runs high following the 2011 Fukushima crisis.

Japan is reopening the Sendai Nuclear Power Unit, the first nuclear facility to reopen since the Fukushima Daichii nuclear disaster over four years ago.

Sakari Momoi, a retired teacher who lived in Saitama city north of Tokyo, passed away due to chronic kidney failure Sunday, Kyodo News cited the municipal office as saying.