Japan’s Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) has officially lifted a two-year operational ban on Tokyo Electric Power Company’s (TEPCO) Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant. The decision comes after the plant, with an impressive capacity of 8,212 megawatts, had been offline since the 2011 Fukushima disaster necessitated the shutdown of all nuclear power plants in Japan.
TEPCO now has the opportunity to resume efforts to restart the world’s largest atomic power plant, a move aimed at reducing operating costs. However, the journey toward reactivation is contingent on obtaining local consent in Niigata prefecture.
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