Japan plans restart of world’s largest nuclear power plant

Bangla Press Desk: Japan will switch the world's largest nuclear power plant back on next week, after a glitch with an alarm forced the suspension of its first restart since the 2011 Fukushima disaster.

Takeyuki Inagaki, the head of the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant run by Tokyo Electric Power (TEPCO), told a press conference Friday that they planned "to start up the reactor on 9 February".

The glitch was linked to the setting on an alarm and did not affect the safe operation of the plant, he said.

Operations to relaunch a reactor at the plant in Niigata province last month were suspended just hours into the process.

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 in 2011.

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