The Shiga Prefectural Government signed an agreement Monday with Kansai Electric Power Co. on safety issues concerning the Takahama nuclear plant in adjacent Fukui Prefecture, which is scheduled to be restarted Friday.

The plant will be the second nuclear power station in Japan to resume electricity generation under new safety regulations introduced after the 2011 Fukushima crisis.

The safety accord requires Kansai Electric to immediately report emergency situations at the plant and compensate for damage caused by accidents. But it stops short of acquiescing to Shiga Prefecture's demand for a say over the plant's reactivation — a right usually awarded to host municipalities.