An alert from a monitoring system was triggered while workers were starting up reactor number six at Kashiwazaki-Kariwa ...

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A reactor at the world’s largest nuclear power plant that restarted for the first time since the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster is now being shut down again due to a glitch that occurred hours after ...

On Wednesday night, Tepco restarted reactor No. 6 at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant — the company’s first restart since all of its reactors were shut down in the aftermath of Fukushima.

Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings, Inc. restarted the No. 6 reactor at its Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant in Niigata Prefecture for the first time in about 14 years. This was the first ...

Is Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. (TEPCO) qualified as a nuclear power plant operator? As the government presses ...

Japanese authorities have shut down the world's largest nuclear power plant just a day after coming back online for the first ...

The Nuclear Regulation Authority will also halt screenings needed for reactivation of the No. 3 and No. 4 reactors at the ...

Alarm forces Japan to halt restart of world’s largest nuclear power plant after just 24 hours - An alert from a monitoring ...

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