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Tokyo Electric Power volition hold the restart of its Kashiwazaki-Kariwa atomic powerfulness plant, which was primitively scheduled for Tuesday (January 20, 2026) for a fewer days, nationalist broadcaster NHK reported connected Monday (January 19), aft an alarm malfunction.
It would person been the archetypal reactor restart for TEPCO since its Fukushima Daiichi atomic powerfulness works was destroyed by a tsunami successful 2011.
The institution had planned to restart Unit No. 6 astatine Kashiwazaki-Kariwa connected January 20 and Unit No. 7 astir 2030, arsenic Japan seeks greater vigor information and little fossil substance import costs.
NHK, citing sources, said the hold was owed to an alarm malfunction that occurred during instrumentality investigating implicit the play and the caller restart day should beryllium wrong a fewer days.
A TEPCO spokesperson said the institution was examining the interaction of the malfunction. Kashiwazaki-Kariwa’s full capableness is 8.2 gigawatts.
TEPCO has planned to resume commercialized operations of reactor No. 6, which has 1.36 GW capacity, connected February 26.
Test for TEPCO
The restart of Kashiwazaki-Kariwa, the world’s biggest atomic powerfulness plant, is being intimately watched arsenic a trial for TEPCO and the Japanese nuclear powerfulness manufacture astatine a clip erstwhile Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi is pushing for caller reactor build-ups, including via a caller nationalist backing scheme, to boost vigor security.
Japan unopen down each its 54 reactors aft the Fukushima meltdown but has since restarted 14 of the 33 that stay operable.
This month, Japan’s atomic watchdog said it would bid Chubu Electric Power to taxable a elaborate study on falsified seismic information and intermission its reappraisal of the utility’s exertion to restart Hamaoka, its only atomic plant.
Chubu Electric’s President Kingo Hayashi stepped down arsenic president of the Federation of Electric Power Companies connected Friday, arsenic helium apologised for the incident.
“The electrical powerfulness concern cannot beryllium without nationalist trust. The erosion of that spot is highly serious,” Hayashi told a briefing connected Friday.
