Of the 54 nuclear reactors Japan used to have, nine have been restarted under tougher post-Fukushima safety standards and four are currently operating.

The nuclear regulator upended plans for a restart of the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant, which can power 24 million households, in April, after identifying operational issues including faulty intruder ...

KASHIWAZAKI, Niigata Prefecture--The Nuclear Regulation Authority gave the go-ahead on April 15 to loading nuclear fuel into a reactor at the long-idled Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant here.

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s Kashiwazaki-Kariwa complex in Niigata Prefecture. The spent fuel is intended to be shipped out for recycling. But the reprocessing plant, also located in Aomori Prefecture, is still under ...

On Sunday, Tepco said it shut down the number six reactor at the Kashiwazaki Kariwa plant, the world’s biggest nuclear power plant. Hokkaido Electric’s reactor remains. Since the Fukushima ...