by Tyler Durden Wednesday, Apr 28, 2021 - 10:40 PM Since achieving the ambitious emissions-reduction targets laid out in the Paris Accords will require developed nations to revive their nuclear plans (something that climate activists have increasingly supported despite the continuing fallout from the disaster at Fukushima) Japan on Wednesday decided to revive three long-idled reactors, marking the first time that Japan has restarted a reactor that's more than 40 years old. After Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga last week announced a new goal of cutting the country's greenhouse gas emissions 46% by fiscal 2030 (an announcement that coincided with President Biden's virtual climate summit) Nikkei reports that Gov. Tatsuji Sugimoto of Fukui Prefecture (located about 300 km, about 186 miles, west of Tokyo) gave the green light on Wednesday to restart the Kansai Electric Power reactor units 1 and 2 at the Takahama nuclear power plant, and unit 3 at the utility's Mihama plant. Japan's plans for building new reactors have been frozen for years, leaving its aging nuclear infrastructure largely intact.