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Plan to Restart World’s Biggest Nuclear Plant Sparks Fukushima Fears

Over a decade after the Fukushima nuclear accident, Tokyo Electric wants to bring an idle plant back online. Listen to The Big Take Asia podcast.

The operating floor inside the reactor unit 7 at Kashiwazaki Kariwa nuclear power plant in Niigata, Japan, on Monday, November 6, 2023.Photographer: Shoko Oda/Bloomberg

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By K Oanh Ha, Yang Yang, and Naomi Ng

May 28, 2024 at 9:10 PM UTC

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May 29, 2024 at 1:38 PM UTC

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All of Japan's 54 nuclear reactors were shut down after the 2011 earthquake and tsunami. As the country's energy needs soar, debate is heating up over whether to bring the world’s largest nuclear plant back online.