Japan restarts world's largest nuclear plant

GLOBAL BRIEFING

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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.

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.