Key Highlights
- Reactor no. 6 at Kashiwazaki-Kariwa was restarted after 15 years of inactivity.
- The restart was delayed by an alarm malfunction.
- The plant has the world's largest installed nuclear capacity.
- Only one more reactor is expected to restart by 2030, with five potentially being decommissioned.
- Japan is balancing the need for clean energy with the trauma from the Fukushima disaster.
