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Japan nuclear restart in doubt after skeptic wins governor's race

TOKYO -- The election of a governor who favors shutting down the Sendai nuclear power plant in southwestern Japan raises uncertainty for the nation's only running reactors.

"A nuclear plant whose safety hasn't been confirmed shouldn't be operating," Satoshi Mitazono, a former TV journalist who ran in Kagoshima Prefecture, told reporters Sunday.

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