Work stopped at the largest nuclear station in the world in Japan, hours after it was restarted

Shut down Thursday at The largest nuclear plant in the world in Japanhours after restarting one of its reactors, according to what its operator told Agence France-Presse.

The restart of the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa station (central west), which was out of service after the Fukushima disaster in 2011, began on Wednesday evening after the approval of the governor of Niigata Prefecture, who signed the decision last month.

Siren

Takashi said. Kobayashi, spokesman for Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), told AFP "A siren in a monitoring system sounded during the reactor’s operations, and operations have now been suspended".

He pointed out that "The reactor is in stable condition and there is no effect of radioactivity on the outside"with an explanation that "TEPCO" You run "An investigation into the cause" The accident occurred and it is not yet able to say when operations will resume.

Technical problem

The station was supposed to restart on Tuesday, but the date was postponed after a technical problem was detected last weekend related to the reactor’s siren, which was resolved on Sunday, according to "TEPCO"

The restart process was initially limited to only one of the seven reactors at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa station, which is the largest in the world in terms of total production capacity.

The governor of Niigata Prefecture (central western Japan), in which the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa station is located, gave last month his approval for its restart, despite the continued strong division of public opinion on this matter, as an opinion poll conducted by local authorities last September showed. 60% of the population opposed restarting the plant, while 37% supported it.

Despite the extreme cold, dozens of people, most of them elderly, demonstrated on Tuesday near the entrance to the plant on the coast of the Sea of Japan, in protest against the decision.

Triple tragedy

The plant was shut down when Japan shut down all of its nuclear reactors after the triple tragedy that befell Fukushima in March 2011, as it witnessed an earthquake, a tsunami, and a nuclear disaster.
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But Japan seeks to reduce its dependence on fossil fuels, achieve carbon neutrality by 2050, and meet the increasing demand for electricity due to Artificial Intelligence.

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi expressed her support for the use of nuclear energy for civilian purposes.

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