Japan restarts world's biggest nuclear plant again

Japan switched on the world’s biggest nuclear power plant again on Monday, its operator said, after an earlier attempt was quickly suspended due to a minor glitch. A problem with a monitoring alarm in January forced the suspension of its first restart since the 2011 Fukushima disaster. The Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant in the Niigata region restarted at 2:00 pm (0500 GMT), the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) said in a statement. 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 […]... Keep on reading: Japan restarts world's biggest nuclear plant again