Japan restarts world's largest nuclear plant

THE world's largest nuclear power plant has been restarted in north-central Japan for the first time since the 2011 Fukushima nuclear meltdown, as Japan accelerates atomic power use to meet soaring electricity needs.

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Antonina leaves her home, damaged after a Russian air strike on the city of Kramatorsk, Ukraine, yesterday

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The first steps in energy production at the No 6 reactor of the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant are important because the operator is Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings, the same utility that runs the ruined Fukushima Daiichi plant.