Editorial

16:56 JST, October 18, 2025

Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings, Inc. has announced that it will consider decommissioning the Nos. 1 and 2 reactors of its Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant in Niigata Prefecture as part of its bid to restart other reactors at the site. The company has also presented a plan to contribute about ¥100 billion in funding to the prefectural government.

TEPCO must make every effort to gain understanding from the areas that host the complex.

Following the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake, it was decided that operations at all seven reactors would be suspended. TEPCO applied for reviews of the Nos. 6 and 7 reactors — the two newest — with the Nuclear Regulation Authority in 2013 and received approval in 2017.

At a prefectural assembly meeting, TEPCO President Tomoaki Kobayakawa said that his company will aim to restart the No. 6 reactor first. He shared........

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