The Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant in Japan is currently the world’s largest nuclear power plant. As mighty as it may be, its reactors have been shut off for several years due to a cacophony of ...

The Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant in Kashiwazaki, Niigata prefecture, northern Japan, on April 2021. The operator of the tsunami-wrecked Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant said on Monday that it has ...

Item 1 of 2 The Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) No. 7 reactor is seen at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear plant in Kashiwazaki, Japan May 9, 2009.

Japan's Nuclear Regulation Authority announced on Wednesday that would lift an operational ban on the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear plant in Niigata Prefecture after demanding counterterrorism measures.

This shows the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant in Kashiwazaki, Niigata prefecture, northern Japan in April 2021. Japanese nuclear safety regulators lifted an operational ban Wednesday, Dec. 27, 2023 ...

The Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant, a sprawling 4.2-million square meter complex by the sea, was once the crown jewel in Japan’s strategy to boost atomic power to 50% of the country’s ...

Japan's Nuclear Regulatory Authority (NRA) today approved the operational safety programme submitted by Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco) for its seven-unit Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant.

The Prime Minister is set to step down in September. The Kashiwazaki-Kariwa NPP has been offline since the 2012 nationwide shutdown of all nuclear facilities in Japan following the Fukushima ...

Kashiwazaki Mayor Masahiro Sakurai, tolerant of a proposed restart of a Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings (Tepco) nuclear power plant, has won a third term in an election in the city. Sakurai ...

The Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant was shut down for nearly two years after an offshore earthquake in July 2007. Unit 7, after receiving upgrades to better withstand seismic activity, was restarted in ...

The Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant in Niigata Prefecture in June 2023 (Asahi Shimbun file photo) Work is under way to revise a business rehabilitation plan for Tokyo Electric Power Co ...