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Gavin Blackburn

Restart of world's biggest nuclear plant paused after alert, Japan's TEPCO says

The restart of the world's largest nuclear power plant was suspended in Japan on Thursday just hours after the process began, its operator said, but the reactor remains "stable."

Operations to relaunch a reactor at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant in Niigata province, closed since the 2011 Fukushima disaster, began late on Wednesday after it received the final green light from the nuclear regulator despite divided public opinion.

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