Nuclear power in Japan
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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
The Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant, a nuclear plant with seven units, the largest single nuclear power station in the world
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.
The Fukushima Daini Nuclear Power Plant is a nuclear power plant located on a 150 ha site in the town of Naraha and Tomioka in the Futaba District of Fukushima Prefecture, Japan. The Tokyo Electric Po
Nuclear power in Japan
…1 BWR BWR-3 439 —N/a Ōkuma and Futaba, Fukushima To be decommissioned 2 BWR BWR-4 760 3 BWR BWR-4 760 4 BWR BWR-4 760 5 BWR BWR-4 760 6 BWR BWR-5 1067 Fukushima Daini 1 BWR BWR-5 1067 4,400 Naraha and Tomioka, Fukushima To be decommissioned 2 BWR BWR-5 1067 3 BWR BWR-5 1067 4 BWR BWR-5 1067 Genkai 1 PWR Mitsubishi…
The Fukushima II NPP, pictured in 2015