Nuclear reactor owned by Fukushima plant operator TEPCO suspends hours-old restart

The restart of the world’s largest nuclear power plant was suspended only hours after it resumed for the first time since the 2011 Fukushima disaster. The restart of the reactor at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant in north-central Japan was suspended due a glitch related to control rods. Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings said there was no safety issue. It was not known when the restart process would resume. TEPCO also runs the Fukushima Daiichi plant where reactors melted down after the plant was damaged in the 2011 quake and tsunami. Other reactors in Japan have restarted since 2011, but the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant is the first TEPCO-run unit to resume production.