 Additionally, 5 reactors have been approved for restart and further 12 have restart applications under review.On 6 May 2011, then Prime Minister Naoto Kan requested the Hamaoka Nuclear Power Plant be shut down as an earthquake of magnitude 8.0 or higher is estimated 87% likely to hit the area within the next 30 years.Kan wanted to avoid a possible repeat of the Fukushima nuclear disaster.