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A decision is expected Sunday on whether Ohi will be shut down. Japan's 50 nuclear reactors, besides the four ruined at Fukushima Dai-ichi, have not been turned back on after getting turned off for routine inspections. The two at Ohi went back on in July, barely two months after this nation went without nuclear power. Before the Fukushima disaster, nuclear power had furnished about 30 percent of Japan's electricity. Ruling party legislator Goshi Hosono, the former minister overseeing the disaster, said Saturday more tests may be needed to check on the faults, but even "a gray zone" of uncertainty would likely mean Ohi reactors would go offline. Japan is promising to develop renewable energy such as solar and wind power, but the shift takes time. The cost of oil and gas imports has hurt the world's third largest economy when it is still recovering from the quake and tsunami.
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