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[Breaking News]TEPCO to reboot 1st reactor since Fukushima disaster

TOKYO, Japan, Dec. 25 Kyodo - Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. President Tomoaki Kobayakawa speaks at a press conference at the company's headquarters in Tokyo on Dec. 24, 2025. TEPCO plans to restart the No. 6 unit at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear complex in Niigata Prefecture on Jan. 20, the utility's first reactor reboot since the 2011 disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex. (Kyodo)

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TEPCO to reboot 1st reactor since Fukushima disaster

Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. President Tomoaki Kobayakawa speaks at a press conference at the company's headquarters in Tokyo on Dec. 24, 2025. TEPCO plans to restart the No. 6 unit at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear complex in Niigata Prefecture on Jan. 20, the utility's first reactor reboot since the 2011 disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex.

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TEPCO to reboot 1st reactor since Fukushima disaster

Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. President Tomoaki Kobayakawa speaks at a press conference at the company's headquarters in Tokyo on Dec. 24, 2025. TEPCO plans to restart the No. 6 unit at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear complex in Niigata Prefecture on Jan. 20, the utility's first reactor reboot since the 2011 disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex.

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Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant

Photo taken on Nov. 7, 2025, shows reactors at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant in Niigata Prefecture, Japan.

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Niigata gov. OKs TEPCO's 1st nuclear reactor restart since Fukushima

NIIGATA, Japan, Nov. 21 Kyodo - Niigata Gov. Hideyo Hanazumi holds an unscheduled press conference in Niigata, northwest of Tokyo, on Nov. 21, 2025, saying he will approve the restart of the No. 6 reactor at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant in the prefecture, the first for its operator Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. since the 2011 Fukushima nuclear crisis. (Kyodo)

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Niigata gov. OKs TEPCO's 1st nuclear reactor restart since Fukushima

Members of a citizens group rally in front of the Niigata prefectural government office in Niigata, northwest of Tokyo, on Nov. 21, 2025, in protest over Niigata Gov. Hideyo Hanazumi's decision the same day to approve the restart of the No. 6 reactor at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant in the prefecture, the first for its operator Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. since the 2011 Fukushima nuclear crisis.

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Niigata gov. OKs TEPCO's 1st nuclear reactor restart since Fukushima

Members of a citizens group rally in front of the Niigata prefectural government office in Niigata, northwest of Tokyo, on Nov. 21, 2025, in protest over Niigata Gov. Hideyo Hanazumi's decision the same day to approve the restart of the No. 6 reactor at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant in the prefecture, the first for its operator Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. since the 2011 Fukushima nuclear crisis.

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Niigata gov. OKs TEPCO's 1st nuclear reactor restart since Fukushima

Members of a citizens group rally in front of the Niigata prefectural government office in Niigata, northwest of Tokyo, on Nov. 21, 2025, in protest over Niigata Gov. Hideyo Hanazumi's decision the same day to approve the restart of the No. 6 reactor at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant in the prefecture, the first for its operator Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. since the 2011 Fukushima nuclear crisis.

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Niigata gov. OKs TEPCO's 1st nuclear reactor restart since Fukushima

Niigata Gov. Hideyo Hanazumi holds an unscheduled press conference in Niigata, northwest of Tokyo, on Nov. 21, 2025, saying he will approve the restart of the No. 6 reactor at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant in the prefecture, the first for its operator Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. since the 2011 Fukushima nuclear crisis.

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Niigata gov. OKs TEPCO's 1st nuclear reactor restart since Fukushima

Niigata Gov. Hideyo Hanazumi holds an unscheduled press conference in Niigata, northwest of Tokyo, on Nov. 21, 2025, saying he will approve the restart of the No. 6 reactor at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant in the prefecture, the first for its operator Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. since the 2011 Fukushima nuclear crisis.

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Niigata gov. OKs TEPCO's 1st nuclear reactor restart since Fukushima

Niigata Gov. Hideyo Hanazumi holds an unscheduled press conference in Niigata, northwest of Tokyo, on Nov. 21, 2025, saying he will approve the restart of the No. 6 reactor at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant in the prefecture, the first for its operator Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. since the 2011 Fukushima nuclear crisis.

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Niigata gov. OKs TEPCO's 1st nuclear reactor restart since Fukushima

Niigata Gov. Hideyo Hanazumi holds an unscheduled press conference in Niigata, northwest of Tokyo, on Nov. 21, 2025, saying he will approve the restart of the No. 6 reactor at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant in the prefecture, the first for its operator Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. since the 2011 Fukushima nuclear crisis.

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Niigata gov. OKs TEPCO's 1st nuclear reactor restart since Fukushima

Photo taken on Nov. 7, 2025, shows the No. 6 reactor (C) at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant in Niigata Prefecture, northwest of Tokyo. Niigata Gov. Hideyo Hanazumi agreed on Nov. 21 to the restart of the reactor, the first for its operator Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. since the 2011 Fukushima nuclear crisis.

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Niigata gov. OKs TEPCO's 1st nuclear reactor restart since Fukushima

Photo taken on Nov. 7, 2025, shows the No. 6 reactor (C) at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant in Niigata Prefecture, northwest of Tokyo. Niigata Gov. Hideyo Hanazumi agreed on Nov. 21 to the restart of the reactor, the first for its operator Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. since the 2011 Fukushima nuclear crisis.

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Niigata gov. OKs TEPCO's 1st nuclear reactor restart since Fukushima

Photo taken on Nov. 7, 2025, shows the No. 6 reactor (C) at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant in Niigata Prefecture, northwest of Tokyo. Niigata Gov. Hideyo Hanazumi agreed on Nov. 21 to the restart of the reactor, the first for its operator Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. since the 2011 Fukushima nuclear crisis.

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IEA chief visits nuclear power plant in Japan

International Energy Agency Executive Director Fatih Birol meets the press after visiting Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc.'s Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant in Niigata Prefecture, northwest of Tokyo, on March 26, 2025.

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IAEA chief visits idle nuclear plant in Niigata Pref.

International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Rafael Grossi (front, L) visits the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant in Niigata Prefecture northwest of Tokyo on Feb. 18, 2025. Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. loaded nuclear fuel into one of the reactors at the idle complex in 2024 as part of preparations to potentially restart the plant that was halted after a massive earthquake and tsunami in March 2011 triggered the Fukushima nuclear disaster.

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TEPCO spent nuclear fuel at interim storage facility

Photo taken on Dec. 3, 2024, shows a spent nuclear fuel container from Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc.'s Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant in Niigata Prefecture, northwest of Tokyo, being stored at Japan's first interim storage facility in Mutsu in Aomori Prefecture, northeastern Japan. Recyclable-Fuel Storage Co. showed the facility's interior to the media for the first time since receiving the container in September.

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TEPCO's spent nuclear fuel sent to interim storage facility

MUTSU, Japan, Sept. 26 Kyodo - Video taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows a vessel carrying spent nuclear fuel from Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc.'s Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant in Niigata Prefecture arriving at a port near Japan's first interim storage facility in Mutsu, Aomori Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on Sept. 26, 2024. (Kyodo)

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TEPCO spent nuclear fuel sent to interim storage facility

A spent nuclear fuel container from Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc.'s Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant in Niigata Prefecture is unloaded from a vessel on Sept. 26, 2024, at a port near Japan's first interim storage facility in Mutsu in Aomori Prefecture, northeastern Japan.

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TEPCO spent nuclear fuel sent to interim storage facility

A spent nuclear fuel container from Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc.'s Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant in Niigata Prefecture is unloaded from a vessel on Sept. 26, 2024, at a port near Japan's first interim storage facility in Mutsu in Aomori Prefecture, northeastern Japan.

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TEPCO's spent nuclear fuel sent to interim storage facility

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows a vessel carrying spent nuclear fuel from Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc.'s Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant in Niigata Prefecture arriving at a port near Japan's first interim storage facility in Mutsu, Aomori Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on Sept. 26, 2024.

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TEPCO spent nuclear fuel sent to interim storage facility

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Sept. 26, 2024, shows a spent nuclear fuel container from Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc.'s Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant in Niigata Prefecture being unloaded from a vessel at a port near Japan's first interim storage facility in Mutsu in Aomori Prefecture, northeastern Japan.

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TEPCO spent nuclear fuel sent to interim storage facility

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Sept. 26, 2024, shows a spent nuclear fuel container from Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc.'s Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant in Niigata Prefecture being unloaded from a vessel at a port near Japan's first interim storage facility in Mutsu in Aomori Prefecture, northeastern Japan.

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TEPCO spent nuclear fuel sent to interim storage facility

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Sept. 26, 2024, shows a spent nuclear fuel container from Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc.'s Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant in Niigata Prefecture being unloaded from a vessel at a port near Japan's first interim storage facility in Mutsu in Aomori Prefecture, northeastern Japan.

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TEPCO spent nuclear fuel sent to interim storage facility

A vessel carrying spent nuclear fuel from Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc.'s Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant in Niigata Prefecture arrives at a port near Japan's first interim storage facility in Mutsu in Aomori Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on Sept. 26, 2024.

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TEPCO's spent nuclear fuel sent to interim storage facility

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows a vessel carrying spent nuclear fuel from Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc.'s Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant in Niigata Prefecture arriving at a port near Japan's first interim storage facility in Mutsu, Aomori Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on Sept. 26, 2024.

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TEPCO spent nuclear fuel sent to interim storage facility

A spent nuclear fuel container from Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc.'s Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant in Niigata Prefecture is unloaded from a vessel on Sept. 26, 2024, at a port near Japan's first interim storage facility in Mutsu in Aomori Prefecture, northeastern Japan.

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TEPCO spent nuclear fuel sent to interim storage facility

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Sept. 26, 2024, shows a spent nuclear fuel container from Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc.'s Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant in Niigata Prefecture being unloaded from a vessel at a port near Japan's first interim storage facility in Mutsu in Aomori Prefecture, northeastern Japan.

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TEPCO spent nuclear fuel sent to interim storage facility

A vessel carrying spent nuclear fuel from Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc.'s Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant in Niigata Prefecture arrives at a port near Japan's first interim storage facility in Mutsu in Aomori Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on Sept. 26, 2024.

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TEPCO spent nuclear fuel sent to interim storage facility

Anti-nuclear protesters stage a rally as a vessel carrying spent nuclear fuel from Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc.'s Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant in Niigata Prefecture arrives at a port near Japan's first interim storage facility in Mutsu in Aomori Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on Sept. 26, 2024.

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TEPCO's spent nuclear fuel shipping

People hold a rally near Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc.'s Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant in Niigata Prefecture, central Japan, on Sept. 24, 2024, protesting the shipment of spent nuclear fuel from the plant to the country's first interim storage facility in Mutsu, Aomori Prefecture, northeastern Japan.

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TEPCO's spent nuclear fuel shipping

People hold a rally near Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc.'s Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant in Niigata Prefecture, central Japan, on Sept. 24, 2024, protesting the shipment of spent nuclear fuel from the plant to the country's first interim storage facility in Mutsu, Aomori Prefecture, northeastern Japan.

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TEPCO's spent nuclear fuel shipped

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Sept. 24, 2024, shows a vessel carrying spent nuclear fuel leaving Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc.'s Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant in Niigata Prefecture, central Japan, on its way to be delivered to the country's first interim storage facility in Mutsu, Aomori Prefecture, northeastern Japan.

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CORRECTED: TEPCO's spent nuclear fuel shipped

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Sept. 24, 2024, shows a vessel carrying spent nuclear fuel leaving Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc.'s Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant in Niigata Prefecture, central Japan, on its way to be delivered to the country's first interim storage facility in Mutsu, Aomori Prefecture, northeastern Japan.

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IAEA assessment at central Japan nuclear plant

Experts from an International Atomic Energy Agency assessment team enter a facility at Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc.'s Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power complex in Niigata Prefecture, central Japan, on March 25, 2024, as they began assessing strengthened counterterrorism measures implemented at the plant in central Japan.

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IAEA assessment at central Japan nuclear plant

An expert from an International Atomic Energy Agency assessment team (facing camera) takes part in a meeting at Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc.'s Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power complex in Niigata Prefecture on March 25, 2024, as they began assessing strengthened counterterrorism measures implemented at the plant in central Japan.

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Kashiwazaki residents bid farewell to GSDF members

KASHIWAZAKI, Japan - Children in Kashiwazaki, Niigata Prefecture bid farewell to members of the Ground Self-Defense Force who have completed their rescue-and-rebuild mission at Kashiwazaki and Kariwa, the two adjoining Niigata towns badly damaged by the magnitude 6.8 earthquake which hit the region on July 16. Several thousands of residents turned out at a thank-you ceremony held in honor of the departing GSDF members in Kashiwazaki on Aug. 27. GSDF members will complete their pullout from Kariwa on Aug. 28

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Tokyo Electric launches new study on Niigata undersea faults

NIIGATA, Japan - Tokyo Electric Power Co., which saw its key Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear plant in Niigata Prefecture crippled by a magnitude 6.8 earthquake last month, sends a seismic research ship out to sea on Aug. 27 to study undersea faults off Niigata and determine the structural safety of the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant. The study involves an area of 140 km by 50 km off the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa coast. The research ship is seen heading out to sea from the port of Niigata in the morning of Aug. 27.

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Months needed to restart quake-hit nuke plant: IAEA

TOKYO, Japan - Philippe Jamet, head of an International Atomic Energy Agency team of experts, speaks to reporters in Tokyo on Aug. 10. Jamet said it will be several months at least before Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant in Niigata Prefecture can resume operations. The plant was damaged by the powerful July 16 earthquake

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IAEA ends 4-day checkup of quake-hit Japan nuclear plant

KASHIWAZAKI, Japan - Philippe Jamet (C), who heads a six-member team of experts from the International Atomic Energy Agency, speaks to reporters near the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power station of Tokyo Electric Power Co. in Niigata Prefecture on Aug. 9 after ending a four-day examination of the plant.

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Emperor, empress visit quake-hit Niigata areas

NIIGATA, Japan - Empress Michiko (L) speaks to local people at a gymnasium in the village of Kariwa, Niigata Prefecture on Aug. 8, where they have been taking refuge since the area was hit by a major quake on July 16. The empress, along with her husband Emperor Akihito, visited the prefecture to reassure people hit hard by the quake. (Pool photo)

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Emperor, empress visit quake-hit Niigata areas

NIIGATA, Japan - Emperor Akihito (L) speaks to local people at a gymnasium in the village of Kariwa, Niigata Prefecture, on Aug. 8, where they have been taking refuge since the area was hit by a major quake on July 16. The emperor, along with his wife Empress Michiko, visited the prefecture to reassure people hit hard by the quake. (Pool photo)

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Emperor, empress visit quake-hit Niigata areas

NIIGATA, Japan - Empress Michiko (R) speaks to local people at a gymnasium in the village of Kariwa, Niigata Prefecture on Aug. 8, where they have been taking refuge since the area was hit by a major quake on July 16. The empress, along with her husband Emperor Akihito, visited the prefecture to reassure people hit hard by the quake. (Pool photo)

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Emperor, empress visit quake-hit Niigata areas

NIIGATA, Japan - Emperor Akihito (R) speaks to local people at a gymnasium in the village of Kariwa, Niigata Prefecture, on Aug. 8, where they have been taking refuge since the area was hit by a major quake on July 16. The emperor, along with his wife Empress Michiko, visited the prefecture to reassure people hit hard by the quake. (Pool photo)

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IAEA inspectors inspect quake-hit nuclear plant in Niigata

KASHIWAZAKI, Japan - Inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency examine the power transformer of the No. 3 reactor of the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power in Niigata Prefecture on Aug. 6. A fire broke out at the transformer during a powerful earthquake which struck the region on July 16.

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IAEA begins assessing quake-hit nuke plant

KASHIWAZAKI, Japan - Philippe Jamet, director of the Nuclear Installation Safety Division of the International Atomic Energy Agency, speaks to reporters as he arrives at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power station in Kashiwazaki, Niigata Prefecture, on Aug. 6 to conduct a four-day assessment of the power plant damaged by a powerful earthquake on July 16.

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IAEA experts arrive in Japan to assess quake-hit nuke plant

NARITA, Japan - Philippe Jamet, director of the International Atomic Energy Agency's Nuclear Installation Safety Division, speaks to reporters on his arrival at Narita airport Aug. 5 together with other nuclear experts and specialists in seismic safety to assess the damage to Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power station in Niigata Prefecture which was hit by a major earthquake in July.

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Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear plant

TOKYO, Japan, Dec. 29 Kyodo - File photo taken Sep. 30, 2017, from a Kyodo News plane shows the No. 6 (C) and No. 7 (R) reactors at Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc.'s Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant in Japan's Niigata Prefecture.

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Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear plant

TOKYO, Japan, Dec. 29 Kyodo - File photo taken Sep. 30, 2017, from a Kyodo News plane shows the No. 6 (L) and No. 7 reactors at Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc.'s Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant in Japan's Niigata Prefecture.