Japan Restarts Reactor at World’s Largest Nuclear Plant
Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. (TEPCO) restarted the No. 6 reactor at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear plant, which had been taken offline on January 23 after an alarm triggered during control rod withdrawal. This marked TEPCO’s first reactor restart since the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster.
The utility plans to begin commercial operations on March 18, after conducting further inspections to ensure the reactor’s systems are fully safe. The 1,360-megawatt reactor is part of the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant, which has seven reactors with a combined capacity of 8.2 gigawatts but has been mostly idle since the Fukushima accident in 2012.
The plant uses boiling water reactors, the same technology involved in the Fukushima disaster, and is operated by TEPCO. Earlier in January, Japan briefly restarted the reactor but had to shut it down a day later due to control rod system issues.
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