"The restart of the world's 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. The Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant in Niigata province had been closed since the 2011 Fukushima disaster, but operations to relaunch it began on Wednesday after it received the final green light from the nuclear regulator."
"However, its operator the Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco) said on Thursday that an alarm from the monitoring system sounded during the reactor startup procedures, causing it to suspend operations. We don't expect this to be solved within a day or two. There is no telling at the moment how long it will take, site superintendent Takeyuki Inagaki told a news conference. We will for now fully focus on trying to identify the cause of what happened, he said."
The Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant's reactor restart was suspended after an alarm triggered during startup procedures, and the operator does not know when the issue will be resolved. The plant had been closed since the 2011 Fukushima disaster and one of its seven reactors was restarted following regulator approval. Operators reinserted control rods in a planned manner and reported the reactor is stable with no radioactive impact outside. Site leadership said diagnosing the cause may take more than a day or two. Japan seeks to revive atomic energy to reduce fossil fuel dependence, meet rising energy demand and pursue carbon neutrality by 2050.
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