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Tohoku Electric Power's Onagawa nuclear power plant is seen in 2011 after an earthquake and tsunami damaged one of its reactors.
2 unit at Tohoku Electric Power's Onagawa plant was cleared to restart by Tokyo's nuclear watchdog Wednesday.
Though the unit received approval from Japan's Nuclear Regulation Authority, it now must pass local inspections and meet heightened safety standards.
The Onagawa plant was the closest nuclear facility to the epicenter of the 2011 earthquake and tsunami that caused three separate core meltdowns at the Fukushima power plant in March 2011.
If it passes all inspections, the Onagawa plant will become just the second reactor damaged by the 2011 disaster to go back online.