The Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant is a large nuclear power plant on a 4.2-square-kilometer site spanning the towns of Kashiwazaki and Kariwa in Niigata Prefecture, Japan, on the coast of the
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Japan started using nuclear power for electricity generation in 1966, and it generated approximately a third of the country's electrical power prior to the Fukushima accident in 2011. After a near-nat
Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant
…In 2017, TEPCO contemplated a restart of the plant from 2019 to 2021. Kashiwazaki-Kariwa is one of the 44 nuclear power plants in Japan that have been rendered inactive in the years following the Fukushima Daiichi Accident. By October 2020, the Japanese government had inspected the…
Three experimental reactors installed in Tōkai, Ibaraki, played key roles in the early development of nuclear power in Japan: from left to right, JRR-1 (1957), JRR-2 (1960), and JRR-3 (1962).
The headquarters of Electric Power Development, or J-Power, whose activities are specially directed towards R&D on new power sources.
Anti-Nuclear Power Plant Rally on 19 September 2011 at Meiji Shrine complex in Tokyo. Sixty thousand people marched chanting "Sayonara nuclear power" and waving banners, to call on Japan's government to abandon nuclear power, following the Fukushima disaster.