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TEPCO reboots 1st nuclear reactor since Fukushima crisis

People protest near the building housing the Nuclear Regulation Authority in Tokyo on Jan. 21, 2026, after Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. restarted the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power complex's No. 6 reactor in Niigata Prefecture, northwest of Tokyo earlier in the day, marking the first resumption of a reactor by TEPCO since the 2011 crisis in Fukushima Prefecture.

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TEPCO reboots 1st nuclear reactor since Fukushima crisis

People protest near the building housing the Nuclear Regulation Authority in Tokyo on Jan. 21, 2026, after Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. restarted the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power complex's No. 6 reactor in Niigata Prefecture, northwest of Tokyo earlier in the day, marking the first resumption of a reactor by TEPCO since the 2011 crisis in Fukushima Prefecture.

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TEPCO reboots 1st nuclear reactor since Fukushima crisis

Photo taken on Jan. 21, 2026, shows the central control room for the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power complex's No. 6 reactor in Niigata Prefecture, northwest of Tokyo. Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. restarted the reactor at the seven-unit complex, the world's largest nuclear power plant by output when fully operational, marking the first resumption of a reactor by TEPCO since the 2011 crisis in Fukushima Prefecture. (Pool photo)

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TEPCO reboots 1st nuclear reactor since Fukushima crisis

People protest near the building housing the Nuclear Regulation Authority in Tokyo on Jan. 21, 2026, after Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. restarted the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power complex's No. 6 reactor in Niigata Prefecture, northwest of Tokyo earlier in the day, marking the first resumption of a reactor by TEPCO since the 2011 crisis in Fukushima Prefecture.

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TEPCO reboots 1st nuclear reactor since Fukushima crisis

Photo taken on Jan. 21, 2026, shows the central control room for the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power complex's No. 6 reactor in Niigata Prefecture, northwest of Tokyo. Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. restarted the reactor at the seven-unit complex, the world's largest nuclear power plant by output when fully operational, marking the first resumption of a reactor by TEPCO since the 2011 crisis in Fukushima Prefecture. (Pool photo)

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TEPCO reboots 1st nuclear reactor since Fukushima crisis

Photo taken on Jan. 21, 2026, shows Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power complex's No. 6 reactor in Niigata Prefecture, northwest of Tokyo. Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. restarted the reactor at the seven-unit complex, the world's largest nuclear power plant by output when fully operational, the same day, marking the first resumption of a reactor by TEPCO since the 2011 crisis in Fukushima Prefecture.

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TEPCO reboots 1st nuclear reactor since Fukushima crisis

Photo taken on Jan. 21, 2026, shows Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power complex in Niigata Prefecture, northwest of Tokyo. Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. restarted the No. 6 reactor at the seven-unit complex, the world's largest nuclear power plant by output when fully operational, the same day, marking the first resumption of a reactor by TEPCO since the 2011 crisis in Fukushima Prefecture.

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TEPCO reboots 1st nuclear reactor since Fukushima crisis

Photo taken on Jan. 21, 2026, shows Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power complex in Niigata Prefecture, northwest of Tokyo. Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. restarted the No. 6 reactor at the seven-unit complex, the world's largest nuclear power plant by output when fully operational, the same day, marking the first resumption of a reactor by TEPCO since the 2011 crisis in Fukushima Prefecture.

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TEPCO reboots 1st nuclear reactor since Fukushima crisis

Photo taken on Jan. 21, 2026, shows Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power complex in Niigata Prefecture, northwest of Tokyo. Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. restarted the No. 6 reactor at the seven-unit complex, the world's largest nuclear power plant by output when fully operational, the same day, marking the first resumption of a reactor by TEPCO since the 2011 crisis in Fukushima Prefecture.

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TEPCO reboots 1st nuclear reactor since Fukushima crisis

Photo taken on Jan. 21, 2026, shows Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power complex in Niigata Prefecture, northwest of Tokyo. Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. restarted the No. 6 reactor at the seven-unit complex, the world's largest nuclear power plant by output when fully operational, the same day, marking the first resumption of a reactor by TEPCO since the 2011 crisis in Fukushima Prefecture.

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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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Onagawa No. 2 nuclear reactor restarts in northeastern Japan

Officials at the Onagawa nuclear power plant are engaged in the operation to restart the No. 2 reactor at the complex in Miyagi Prefecture on Oct. 29, 2024. It marked the first reactor restart in northeastern Japan since the region was affected by the 2011 earthquake-tsunami disaster, which triggered the Fukushima nuclear crisis. (Pool photo)

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TEPCO removes another panel from reactor cover

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken Nov. 10, 2014 from a Kyodo News helicopter shows the No. 1 nuclear reactor building of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi complex in northeastern Japan, after its operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. removed a second panel from the roof of the cover shrouding the building. The removal, conducted on a trial basis, is a first step toward demolishing the cover and eventually removing spent fuel rods stored in a cooling pool in the building.

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TEPCO removes another panel from reactor cover

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken Nov. 10, 2014 from a Kyodo News helicopter shows the No. 1 nuclear reactor building of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi complex in northeastern Japan, after its operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. removed a second panel from the roof of the cover shrouding the building. The removal, conducted on a trial basis, is a first step toward demolishing the cover and eventually removing spent fuel rods stored in a cooling pool in the building.

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TEPCO removes another panel from reactor cover

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken Nov. 10, 2014 from a Kyodo News helicopter shows the No. 1 nuclear reactor building of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi complex in northeastern Japan, after its operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. removed a second panel from the roof of the cover shrouding the building. The removal, conducted on a trial basis, is a first step toward demolishing the cover and eventually removing spent fuel rods stored in a cooling pool in the building.

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Planned restart of nuclear power plant in Kagoshima

SATSUMASENDAI, Japan - Photo shows Kyushu Electric Power Co.'s nuclear power plant in the city of Satsumasendai, Kagoshima Prefecture, on Nov. 3, 2014. The same day, Economy, Trade and Industry Minister Yoichi Miyazawa visited the complex, which is expected to be the first nuclear plant to be brought back online under new safety regulations adopted after the March 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster.

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Regulators unveil draft report for restart of Kyushu nuclear plant

TOKYO, Japan - People stage a rally on July 16, 2014, in front of a Tokyo building where the Nuclear Regulation Agency is housed calling for Kyushu Electric Power Co.'s Sendai nuclear plant to remain idled. The plant in Satsumasendai in the southwestern prefecture of Kagoshima will be the first nuclear complex to meet a new set of safety standards, introduced in July last year, if the regulators' safety screening report is finalized following a month-long public consultation period.

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Regulators unveil draft report for restart of Kyushu nuclear plant

FUKUOKA, Japan - Photo taken in January 2014 shows Kyushu Electric Power Co.'s Sendai nuclear plant in Satsumasendai in Japan's southwestern prefecture of Kagoshima. It will be the first nuclear complex to meet a new set of safety standards, introduced in July last year, if the Nuclear Regulation Agency's safety screening report is finalized following a month-long public consultation period.

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Fukushima school set to reopen after temporary evacuation

TAMURA, Japan - Teachers at Furumichi Elementary School in the Miyakoji district of Tamura, Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan, prepare decorations on March 31, 2014, for a first-day-of-school ceremony to be held April 7. The school, which had been relocated to a temporary campus in the aftermath of the March 2011 meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power complex, is set to reopen at its original location as the government lifted an evacuation order for the area on April 1.

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TEPCO logs group net profit

TOKYO, Japan - Tokyo Electric Power Co. President Naomi Hirose gives a press conference on the utility's earnings in the first half of fiscal 2013 at the company's head office in Tokyo on Oct. 31, 2013. TEPCO reported a group net profit of 616.20 billion yen for the April-September period, swinging into the black on a half-year basis for the first time since the nuclear disaster at its Fukushima Daiichi complex in 2011.

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Ex-Fukushima Daiichi plant chief Yoshida dies

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in November 2011 shows Masao Yoshida, head of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power complex, giving a speech as the crippled plant is shown to journalists for the first time since the start of the nuclear crisis in March 2011. Yoshida died of esophageal cancer at a Tokyo hospital on July 9, 2013, Tokyo Electric Power Co. said. He was 58. After the Fukushima complex was hit by tsunami waves following a huge earthquake, Yoshida took command of the situation in an isolated building on the plant's premises.

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Ex-Fukushima Daiichi plant chief Yoshida dies

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in November 2011 shows Masao Yoshida, head of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power complex, as the crippled plant is shown to journalists for the first time since the start of the nuclear crisis in March 2011. Yoshida died of esophageal cancer at a Tokyo hospital on July 9, 2013, Tokyo Electric Power Co. said. He was 58. After the Fukushima complex was hit by tsunami waves following a huge earthquake, Yoshida took command of the situation in an isolated building on the plant's premises.

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Leak in Fukushima plant tank

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Tokyo Electric Power Co. President Naomi Hirose holds a press conference at the J-Village outpost in Fukushima Prefecture on May 16, 2013. The operator of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex said that around 20 liters of radioactive water escaped from the first of three underground water tanks found to have leaked at the plant, much smaller than the earlier estimate of 120 tons.

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Antinuclear rally in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Police officers and antinuclear protesters jostle in front of the Diet building in Tokyo on July 29, 2012. People lit candles to surround the Diet building in Tokyo, protesting against the resumption of two nuclear reactors at the Oi power plant on the Sea of Japan coast, the first reactivations since all of the nation's reactors were shut down following the disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi complex.

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Antinuclear rally in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Antinuclear protesters gather holding candles in front of the Diet building (C back) in Tokyo on July 29, 2012. People lit candles to surround the Diet building in Tokyo, protesting against the resumption of two nuclear reactors at the Oi power plant on the Sea of Japan coast, the first reactivations since all of the nation's reactors were shut down following the disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi complex.

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Antinuclear rally in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on July 29, 2012, shows antinuclear protesters in front of the Diet building in Tokyo. People lit candles to surround the Diet building in Tokyo, protesting against the resumption of two nuclear reactors at the Oi power plant on the Sea of Japan coast, the first reactivations since all of the nation's reactors were shut down following the disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi complex.

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Antinuclear rally in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on July 29, 2012, shows antinuclear protesters in front of the Diet building in Tokyo. People lit candles to surround the Diet building in Tokyo, protesting against the resumption of two nuclear reactors at the Oi power plant on the Sea of Japan coast, the first reactivations since all of the nation's reactors were shut down following the disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi complex.

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Antinuclear rally in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on July 29, 2012, shows antinuclear protesters in front of the Diet building in Tokyo. People lit candles to surround the Diet building in Tokyo, protesting against the resumption of two nuclear reactors at the Oi power plant on the Sea of Japan coast, the first reactivations since all of the nation's reactors were shut down following the disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi complex.

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Antinuclear rally in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on July 29, 2012, shows antinuclear protesters in front of the Diet building in Tokyo. People lit candles to surround the Diet building in Tokyo, protesting against the resumption of two nuclear reactors at the Oi power plant on the Sea of Japan coast, the first reactivations since all of the nation's reactors were shut down following the disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi complex.

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Antinuclear rally in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Antinuclear protesters march past the headquarters of Tokyo Electric Power Co. (R) in Tokyo's Uchisaiwaicho district on July 29, 2012. People took to the streets of central Tokyo the same day to protest at the resumption of two nuclear reactors at the Oi power plant on the Sea of Japan coast, the first reactivations since all of the nation's reactors were shut down following the disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi complex.

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Antinuclear rally in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows antinuclear protesters in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward on July 29, 2012. People took to the streets of central Tokyo the same day to protest at the resumption of two nuclear reactors at the Oi power plant on the Sea of Japan coast, the first reactivations since all of the nation's reactors were shut down following the disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi complex.

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TEPCO chairman, president survey Fukushima plant

TOMIOKA, Japan - Kazuhiko Shimokobe (R), chairman of Tokyo Electric Power Co., and TEPCO President Naomi Hirose (C) visit the utility's Fukushima Daini nuclear power plant in the town of Tomioka, Fukushima Prefecture, on July 4, 2012. They visited the plant as well as the utility's crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex for the first time since assuming their posts in late June. (Pool photo)

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Pakistan nuclear institute

TAXILA, Pakistan - Photo taken in March 2012 shows the Heavy Mechanical Complex-3, a nuclear institute in Taxila, near Islamabad. Pakistan reportedly completed its first homegrown pressure vessel for a nuclear reactor at the institute.

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Pakistan nuclear institute

TAXILA, Pakistan - Photo taken in March 2012 shows the Heavy Mechanical Complex-3, a nuclear institute in Taxila, near Islamabad. Pakistan reportedly completed its first homegrown pressure vessel for a nuclear reactor at the institute.

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Japan restarts 2nd nuclear plant under tighter post-Fukushima rules

People gather in front of the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Jan. 29, 2016, to oppose nuclear power generation. A reactor at Kansai Electric Power Co.'s Takahama nuclear plant in western Japan resumed operation the same day, making it the second complex to restart and the first running on uranium-plutonium mixed oxide fuel, under stricter safety rules set after the 2011 Fukushima disaster. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan restarts 2nd nuclear complex under tighter post-Fukushima rules

File photo taken Jan. 12, 2016, shows Kansai Electric Power Co.'s Takahama nuclear plant on the Sea of Japan coast, where the No. 3 reactor (L in back) resumed operation on Jan. 29. The reactor became the second complex to restart, and the first running on uranium-plutonium mixed oxide fuel, under stricter safety rules set after the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan restarts 2nd nuclear plant under tighter post-Fukushima rules

A man holds a placard on Jan. 29, 2016, in front of Kansai Electric Power Co.'s Takahama nuclear plant on the Sea of Japan coast to express opposition to the day's reactivation of the complex's No. 3 reactor. Takahama became the second nuclear complex to restart and the first running on uranium-plutonium mixed oxide fuel since Japan's new safety standards were put in place after the 2011 Fukushima disaster. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan restarts 2nd nuclear complex under tighter post-Fukushima rules

Photo taken Jan. 29, 2016, shows the No. 3 reactor at Kansai Electric Power Co.'s nuclear power plant in the town of Takahama, Fukui Prefecture, in central Japan, shortly after the reactor resumed operation. The plant became the second nuclear complex to restart, and the first running on uranium-plutonium mixed oxide fuel, under stricter safety rules set after the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan restarts 2nd nuclear complex under tighter post-Fukushima rules

File photo taken Jan. 12, 2016, shows the No. 3 reactor of Kansai Electric Power Co.'s Takahama nuclear plant on the Sea of Japan coast. The reactor resumed operation on Jan. 29, becoming the second complex to restart, and the first running on uranium-plutonium mixed oxide fuel, under stricter safety rules set after the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan restarts 2nd nuclear complex under tighter post-Fukushima rules

Police officers stand guard at the entrance to Kansai Electric Power Co.'s nuclear power plant in the town of Takahama, Fukui Prefecture, in central Japan on Jan. 29, 2016, shortly after the No. 3 reactor (background) at the plant resumed operation. The plant became the second nuclear complex to restart, and the first running on uranium-plutonium mixed oxide fuel, under stricter safety rules set after the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan restarts nuclear reactor after 2-year hiatus

People stage a sit-in in front of Kyushu Electric Power Co.'s Sendai nuclear plant in Satsumasendai, Kagoshima Prefecture, on the morning of Aug. 11, 2015, prior to the resumption of the No. 1 reactor of the plant. Japan reactivated a nuclear reactor on the day for the first time in nearly two years despite strong safety concerns among the public following the catastrophe at the Fukushima Daiichi complex triggered by a powerful earthquake and tsunami in March 2011. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan restarts nuclear reactor after 2-year hiatus

People stage a protest in front of Kyushu Electric Power Co.'s Sendai nuclear plant in Satsumasendai, Kagoshima Prefecture, on the morning of Aug. 11, 2015, prior to the resumption of the No. 1 reactor of the plant. Japan reactivated a nuclear reactor on the day for the first time in nearly two years despite strong safety concerns among the public following the catastrophe at the Fukushima Daiichi complex triggered by a powerful earthquake and tsunami in March 2011. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan restarts nuclear reactor after 2-year hiatus

Security guards stand beside protesters' cars in front of Kyushu Electric Power Co.'s Sendai nuclear plant in Satsumasendai, Kagoshima Prefecture, on the morning of Aug. 11, 2015, prior to the resumption of the No. 1 reactor of the plant. Japan reactivated a nuclear reactor on the day for the first time in nearly two years despite strong safety concerns among the public following the catastrophe at the Fukushima Daiichi complex triggered by a powerful earthquake and tsunami in March 2011. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan restarts nuclear reactor after 2-year hiatus

People stage a sit-in in front of Kyushu Electric Power Co.'s Sendai nuclear plant in Satsumasendai, Kagoshima Prefecture, on the morning of Aug. 11, 2015, prior to the resumption of the No. 1 reactor of the plant. Japan reactivated a nuclear reactor on the day for the first time in nearly two years despite strong safety concerns among the public following the catastrophe at the Fukushima Daiichi complex triggered by a powerful earthquake and tsunami in March 2011. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan restarts nuclear reactor after 2-year hiatus

Security guards stand while people gather to protest in front of Kyushu Electric Power Co.'s Sendai nuclear plant in Satsumasendai, Kagoshima Prefecture, on the morning of Aug. 11, 2015, prior to the resumption of the No. 1 reactor of the plant. Japan reactivated a nuclear reactor on the day for the first time in nearly two years despite strong safety concerns among the public following the catastrophe at the Fukushima Daiichi complex triggered by a powerful earthquake and tsunami in March 2011. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Sea urchin caught in Fukushima for 1st time after nuclear crisis

A woman cooks on July 30, 2015, sea urchin caught off the coast of Iwaki in Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan. Fishing of sea urchin, a local specialty, resumed that day on a trial basis for the first time since the March 2011 nuclear crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi complex triggered by a massive earthquake and tsunami. The catch will be cooked and, if it passes radiation screening, put on sale. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Sea urchin caught in Fukushima for 1st time after nuclear crisis

Photo taken July 30, 2015, shows sea urchin caught off the coast of Iwaki in Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan. Fishing of sea urchin, a local specialty, resumed that day on a trial basis for the first time since the March 2011 nuclear crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi complex triggered by a massive earthquake and tsunami. The catch will be cooked and, if it passes radiation screening, put on sale. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Sea urchin caught in Fukushima for 1st time after nuclear crisis

Divers catch sea urchin off the coast of Iwaki in Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on July 30, 2015. Fishing of sea urchin, a local specialty, resumed that day on a trial basis for the first time since the March 2011 nuclear crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi complex triggered by a massive earthquake and tsunami. The catch will be cooked and, if it passes radiation screening, put on sale. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo