Japan's Shimane nuclear power plant resumed operation after 13 years...Fourteen days after the Fukushima accident.

Japan's Chugoku Electric Power Co. restarted the Shimane Nuclear Power Plant's reactor No. 2 in Matsue, Shimane Prefecture, Kyodo News reported.

It has been about 13 years since we stopped driving in January 2012 due to regular inspections.

Jugoku Electric Power Co. plans to start power generation and transmission later this month and resume commercial operations early next month.

Shimane Nuclear Power Plant 2 is a boiling water reactor that boils water like Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, which exploded during the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake.

This is the second time that a boiling water reactor has been restarted since the Great East Japan Earthquake, following the Onagawa Nuclear Power Plant 2 in Miyagi Prefecture in October.

Shimane Nuclear Power Plant is the only nuclear power plant in Japan located in the prefecture.

Ahead of the restart, it was pointed out that there was no effective way for about 450,000 people living within a 30-kilometer radius of the nuclear power plant to evacuate safely in the event of an accident.

Some residents filed a provisional injunction in May to ban the resumption of operations at Shimane Nuclear Power Plant 2, but the court refused to accept it.

Shimane Nuclear Power Plant 2 is the 14th nuclear power plant to restart after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant accident.