The Japanese region of Niigata is expected to endorse a decision to restart the world’s largest nuclear power plant on Monday, a watershed moment in the country’s pivot back to nuclear since the 2011 Fukushima disaster.
Kashiwazaki-Kariwa, located about 220 km (136 miles) northwest of Tokyo, was among 54 reactors shut after a massive earthquake and tsunami crippled the Fukushima Daiichi plant in the worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl.
tbf, a nuclear power plant in a tsunami prone region is a bad idea.
I think nuclear energy is the way to go. at least use it to get rid of fossil fuel dependency, then we can continue to expand other renewables.
doing this is just calling for another Godzilla attack.
Not if the facility is built to deal with those outcomes, like tsunami and earthquakes. Fukushima design was criticized when built for ignoring safety in designs to save money.
technically every region has challenges that shouldn’t be ignored.
To be fair, it took an earthquake and a tsunami to hurt it.
false news, it was Godzilla.