Alarm forces Japan to halt restart of world’s largest nuclear power plant after just 24 hours - An alert from a monitoring system was triggered while workers were starting up reactor number six at Kas ...

Japan's Tokyo Electric Power Co. shut down a nuclear reactor Thursday morning at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant hours after it went live.

Operations to relaunch a reactor at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant began late Wednesday despite divided public opinion.

The utility that operates the Fukushima plant that melted down in 2011 is to restart a reactor at the world's largest nuclear power plant, which it also operates in north-central Japan.

Japan suspended the restart of the world’s largest nuclear power plant just a day after it began operating for the first time since the 2011 Fukushima disaster, after an alarm sounded during start-up ...