A nuclear reactor in northeastern Japan damaged by the 2011 tsunami and earthquake disaster has cleared the last hurdle to resume operations after getting the green light Wednesday from local officials.The No. 2 unit of Tohoku Electric Power Co.'s Onagawa plant in Miyagi Prefecture is the first of the reactors damaged in the disaster to win final approval with local consent to restart. The unit is the same boiling water reactor as at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi power plant that caused one of the world's worst nuclear disasters.Miyagi Gov. Yoshihiro Murai and the mayors of Onagawa and Ish…READ FULL ARTICLE
