Japan is preparing to restart the world’s largest nuclear power plant, nearly 15 years after the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster led to the shutdown of reactors across the country.
The massive Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant in northwestern Niigata prefecture was among 54 reactors taken offline after the earthquake and tsunami in March 2011 triggered a meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi plant, the worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl.
