Japan to restart largest nuclear plant in worldAFP, TOKYOJapan would switch the world’s largest nuclear power plant back on next week, after a glitch with an alarm forced the suspension of its first restart since the 2011 Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant disaster. Takeyuki Inagaki, the head of the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant run by Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO), yesterday said that they planned to start up the reactor on Monday. Takeyuki Inagaki, the head of Tokyo Electric Power Co’s Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant, speaks during a news conference in Niigata Prefecture, Japan, yesterday. Kashiwazaki-Kariwa is the world’s biggest nuclear power plant by potential capacity, although just one reactor of seven would restart. The facility had been offline since Japan pulled the plug on nuclear power after a colossal earthquake and tsunami sent three reactors at the Fukushima atomic plant into meltdown in 2011.

Source: Taipei Times February 06, 2026 16:41 UTC