TOKYO (Dec 24): Tokyo Electric Power Co plans to restart the first unit of its Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant, the world's biggest, on Jan 20, Tepco president Tomoaki Kobayakawa told reporters on Wednesday. This week, the prefecture assembly in Niigata, the region where the plant is located, gave a green light for the partial restart of the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant. It will be the first for Tepco since its Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactor's meltdown in 2011. Kashiwazaki-Kariwa, located about 220km (136 miles) northwest of Tokyo, was among 54 reactors shut after the 2011 earthquake and tsunami crippled the Fukushima Daiichi plant in the world's worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl. The pending restart would bring one 1.36GW unit online in January and restart another one with the same capacity around 2030.

Source: The Edge Markets December 24, 2025 09:12 UTC