Kashiwazaki-Kariwa: Japan to Resume World’s largest Nuclear Power Plant

Japan’s nuclear power regulator made a decision to lift the operational ban on Tokyo Electric Power’s Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant, This comes two years after the Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) imposed the ban, citing safety breaches and concerns about the facility’s preparedness.

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Tepco, the operator of the plant, has long been eager to bring the world’s largest atomic power plant back online to reduce operating costs.

The Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant has capacity of 8,212 megawatts (MW) and has been offline since 2012 following the Fukushima disaster, which led to the shutdown of all nuclear power plants in Japan at that time.

The NRA’s decision in 2021 to bar Tepco from operating the plant was a response to safety breaches, including the failure to protect nuclear materials and unauthorized access to sensitive areas of the facility.

The NRA’s ban was not without reason, as Tepco faced criticism for lax safety measures and insufficient antiterrorism protocols.

However, recent inspections and improvements in the safety management system made the regulatory body to lift the corrective action order that prevented Tepco from transporting new uranium fuel to the plant or loading fuel rods into its reactors.

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