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Japan restarts world's largest nuclear plant
The Sentinel
|January 22, 2026
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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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.
This story is from the January 22, 2026 edition of The Sentinel.
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