TOKYO: Japan switched on the world\u2019s biggest nuclear power plant again on Monday, its operator said, after an earlier attempt was quickly suspended due to a minor glitch.<\/p>\n
The Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant in the Niigata region restarted at 2:00 p.m. (0500 GMT), the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) said in a statement.<\/p>\n
A glitch with an alarm in January forced the suspension of its first restart since the 2011 Fukushima disaster.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
Conservative Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, who pulled off a thumping election victory on Sunday, has promoted nuclear power to energise the Asian economic giant.<\/p>\n
TEPCO initially moved to start one of seven reactors at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant on January 21 but shut it off the following day after an alarm from the monitoring system sounded.<\/p>\n
The alarm had picked up slight changes to the electrical current in one cable even though these were still within a range considered safe, TEPCO officials told a press conference last week.<\/p>\n
The firm has changed the alarm\u2019s settings as the reactor is safe to operate.<\/p>\n
The commercial operation will commence on or after March 18 after another comprehensive inspection, according to TEPCO officials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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