LAST Thursday, the Japanese government provoked a few predictable squawks of protest when it announced that Kyushu Electric had restarted a second nuclear reactor at its Sendai plant in the southern part of Japan; the utility had restarted the first one in August. By next month, if all goes well, the plant should be producing power normally from its two reactors, marking the end of a four-year moratorium on operating nuclear generators following the 2011 Fukushima disaster.

In Great Britain, negotiations to form a consortium to finance a 34-billion euro project to build two next-generation European Pressurized Reactors (EPRs) are likely to get a push towards a successful conclusion by year’s end with the visit of Chinese President Xi Jinping to London this week. The planned facility—Britain’s first new nuclear plant in decades—would be built by a partnership between French utility EDF and one or both of China’s state-run firms China General Nuclear Corporation (CGN) or China National Nuclear Corporation.

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