[rurounijones]

The decision to decommission the plant is political, not technical.

Onagawa was closer to the epicenter than fukushima and suffered no ill effects. It can be done, the main different between Onagawa and Fukushima is that they were owned by different companies and one company took safety seriously.

For more reading, see: https://thebulletin.org/2014/03/onagawa-the-japanese-nuclear...

and IAEA report: https://www.iaea.org/newscenter/focus/actionplan/reports/ona... which the article is based on.