article_snippet.sent: The first of two reactors is scheduled to go back online in July.
article_snippet.sent: The ruling could provide a fillip to the government's plans to bring Japanese nuclear reactors back into operation, more than four years since the earthquake and subsequent tsunami that caused the failure at TEPCO's Fukushima plant.
article_snippet.sent: Japan's nuclear watchdog, the Nuclear Regulation Authority, had previously given a green light to the reopening of reactors 3 and 4 of the Kansai Electric Power Company's plant.
article_snippet.sent: Japan's 48 nuclear reactors are offline in the wake of the Fukushima disaster in 2011, when a tsunami triggered by a massive earthquake sent a wall of water crashing into TEPCO's Fukushima plant.
article_snippet.sent: Power company abandons robot stranded inside Fukushima plant .
article_snippet.sent: Anti-nuclear activists celebrated following the decisionAnti-nuclear activists .
article_snippet.sent: Takahama was one of two nuclear facilities granted approval to resume operations.
article_snippet.sent: Prior to the Fukushima disaster, about 30% of Japan's energy was nuclear generated.
highlights_snippet.sent: Japan's 48 nuclear reactors have been offline in the wake of the 2011 Fukushima disaster .