The assembly of Japan’s Niigata prefecture on Monday passed a vote of confidence in Governor Hanazumi Hideyo’s plan to restart the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant, which has been shut down ever since the earthquake that caused the Fukushima nuclear disaster in 2011.
Japan shut down 54 of its nuclear reactors after the earthquake and tsunami that damaged the Fukushima Daiichi plant in 2011. Thirty-three of those reactors have been deemed suitable for reactivation over the ensuing 15 years, and 14 of those have been restarted.
Kashiwazaki-Kariwa, located about 137 miles northwest of Tokyo in Niigata prefecture, has seven reactors and a…
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