Tepco to Restart Japan’s Biggest Nuclear Plant in January

Tokyo Electric Power Co. plans to restart the world’s largest nuclear power plant next month, marking the Japanese utility’s return to atomic energy nearly 15 years after the Fukushima disaster.

Tepco will reopen the No. 6 reactor at the Kashiwazaki Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant in Niigata prefecture on Jan. 20, Tomoaki Kobayakawa, the company’s president, told reporters in Tokyo on Wednesday.