The submitted application factors in the plan to bring the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear plant in Niigata Prefecture back online. The utility applied to the industry ministry to raise the regulated ...

Japanese utilities restarted two additional nuclear reactors in 2024 that had been suspended from operations in response to the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi accident, taking the total number of restarted ...

A new plan envisions nuclear power making up 20% of Japan's energy mix by 2040. But hurdles to reactor restarts and rising ...