Japan Restarts Its Largest Nuclear Plant Thirteen Years After Fukushima

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Japan is restarting its largest nuclear power plant, Kashiwasaki Kariwa, after a 13-year hiatus following the Fukushima disaster, with the first reactor expected to be switched on tonight.

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Japan’s Tokyo Electric Power Co. will today restart its first nuclear reactor after the Fukushima disaster. Reactor #6 at the Kashiwasaki Kariwa power plant will be switched on after 7 pm local time, Bloomberg reported, citing a company news release. The reactor has a capacity of 1.36 GW, Reuters noted in a report on the news. Kashiwasaki Kariwa is the world’s largest nuclear power plant, with seven reactors and a total capacity of 8.2 GW. All of those were shut down after the Fukushima meltdown. Around 15,000 people died in March 2011,…

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