Summary:
- Japan is planning to restart operations at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant, which is the world's largest nuclear plant. This comes 15 years after the Fukushima nuclear disaster in 2011.
- The Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant was shut down after the Fukushima incident, but the Japanese government and the plant's operator, TEPCO, have now received approval to restart the plant's operations.
- Restarting the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant is part of Japan's efforts to increase its nuclear power generation capacity to address energy shortages and reduce reliance on fossil fuels.