Kashiwazaki-Kariwa
♦ Japan switched on the world's biggest nuclear power plant, named 'Kashiwazaki-Kariwa' again on 9 February 2026. A problem with a monitoring alarm in 2026 January forced the suspension of its first restart since the 2011 Fukushima disaster. ♦ The Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant locate in the Niigata region. ♦ The facility had been offline since Japan pulled the plug on nuclear power after a colossal earthquake and tsunami sent three reactors at the Fukushima atomic plant into meltdown. But now Japan is turning to atomic energy to reduce its reliance on fossil fuels, achieve carbon neutrality by 2050 and meet growing energy needs from artificial intelligence.