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.
Monju Nuclear Power Plant
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Monju was a Japanese sodium-cooled fast reactor, located near the Tsuruga Nuclear Power Plant, Fukui Prefecture. Its name is a reference to Manjusri. Construction started in 1986 and the reactor achie
Monju Nuclear Power Plant
Monju in 2007