The restart at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant was being watched closely since TEPCO also runs the Fukushima Daiichi plant that was ruined in the 2011 quake and tsunami.
Despite a survey showing that residents were split over the resumption, NiigataGovernor Hideyo Hanazumi gave the greenlight for plant restart last November and the prefectural assembly followed up a month later.
Operations to relaunch a reactor at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant, closed since the 2011Fukushima disaster, began on January 21, 2026 after it received the final green light from the nuclear regulator despite divided public opinion ....
Earlier in the day, TEPCO suspended control rod withdrawal operations at the just-restarted reactor No ... Fukushima plant operator TEPCO decides to shut down reactor a day after restart.
The setback occurred hours after one of the world’s largest nuclear complexes restarted, ending more than a decade of dormancy following the 2011Fukushima Daiichi meltdown ... .
TOKYO (AP) — A reactor at the world's largest nuclear power plant that restarted for the first time since the 2011Fukushima nuclear disaster is now being shut down again Thursday due to a glitch that occurred hours after the ... .
The restart of the world's largest nuclear power plant was suspended in Japan Thursday just hours after the process began, its operator said, but the reactor remains "stable" ....