TOKYO: The restart of the world’s largest nuclear power plant was suspended in Japan Thursday just hours after the process began, its operator said, but the reactor remained “stable.” Operations to relaunch a reactor at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant in Niigata province, closed since the 2011 Fukushima disaster, began late Wednesday after it received the final green light from the nuclear regulator despite divided public opinion. “An alarm from the monitoring system...

Japan's Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear plant, the world's largest, is set to restart one reactor on January 21, 2026.

Petition signed by 40,000 relays concerns over risk of seismic activity in vicinity of Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant.