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The Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant (柏崎刈羽原子力発電所, Kashiwazaki-Kariwa genshiryoku-hatsudensho, Kashiwazaki-Kariwa NPP) is a large, modern (housing the world's first advanced boiling water reactor or ABWR) nuclear power plant on a 4.2-square-kilometer (1,000-acre) site. [1]
The following is a list of Japanese nuclear power plants.After the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, all 17 major plants were shut down.As of 2022, only 6 out of 17 major nuclear power plants operate in the country, operated by the Kyushu Electric Power (Kyuden), Shikoku Electric Power Company (Yonden) and Kansai Electric Power Company (Kanden).
The Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant, a nuclear plant with seven units, the largest single nuclear power station in the world, was completely shut down for 21 months following an earthquake in 2007. [1] Nuclear power generated 5.55% of Japan's electricity in 2023. [2]
Last December, the national nuclear regulator lifted an operational ban imposed in 2021 on the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant in northern Japan due to safety breaches, allowing Tepco to work towards ...
Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings, or TEPCO, said that it obtained the Nuclear Regulation Authority’s approval to load nuclear fuel into the No. 7 reactor at its Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nucl
Ono added that TEPCO's Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant, the world's largest, which holds seven reactors in its complex and is located 118 kilometers (73 miles) east of the epicenter, had no ...
The plant is notable for being the largest nuclear generating station in the world by net electrical power rating, and was closed indefinitely <!--replace with duration if it ever resumes operation--> by the strongest earthquake to ever hit a nuclear plant, the 2007 Chūetsu offshore earthquake. <ref>Japan accepts IAEA inspectors after quake ...
The Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant's No. 6 and No. 7 reactors had passed regulators' safety tests for a restart, but they were suspended from making further preparations after safeguarding problems ...