{"id":76063,"date":"2026-01-23T09:19:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T00:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/jan\/23\/japan-pauses-kashiwazaki-kariwa-worlds-largest-nuclear-power-plant"},"modified":"2026-01-23T09:19:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T00:19:13","slug":"japan-pauses-restart-of-worlds-largest-nuclear-power-plant-one-day-after-it-went-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=76063","title":{"rendered":"Japan pauses restart of world\u2019s largest nuclear power plant one day after it went online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Operator says it does now know when the problem at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant in Niigata province will be solved, after an alarm sounded during start-up<\/p>\n<p>The restart of the world\u2019s largest nuclear power plant was suspended in Japan on Thursday just a day after it went online for the first time in about 14 years, with the operator saying it does not know when the problem will be solved.<\/p>\n<p>The Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant in Niigata province had been closed since the 2011 Fukushima disaster, but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2025\/dec\/31\/japan-pivots-nuclear-power-maximisation-renewables\">operations to relaunch it began on Wednesday<\/a> after it received the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/25\/japan-eyes-return-to-nuclear-power-more-than-a-decade-after-fukushima-disaster\">final green light from the nuclear regulator<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/jan\/23\/japan-pauses-kashiwazaki-kariwa-worlds-largest-nuclear-power-plant\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Operator says it does now know when the problem at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant in Niigata province will be solved, after an alarm sounded during start-upThe restart of the world\u2019s largest nuclear power plant was suspended in Japan on Thursday just a d&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":482,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,980,88,570],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-fukushima","category-japan","category-nuclear-power"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/482"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76063"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76066,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76063\/revisions\/76066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}