Japan

8 sites

Fukushima Daiichi

Civil PowerJapan

Six boiling water reactors on the Pacific coast of Fukushima prefecture. The March 2011 tsunami flooded units 1 to 4, three cores ...

Kashiwazaki-Kariwa

Civil PowerJapan

The largest nuclear station on Earth by nameplate, seven boiling water reactors totaling 8,200 MW on the Sea of Japan coast in Nii...

Sendai

Civil PowerJapan

Two pressurized water reactors in Kagoshima, Kyushu. In August 2015 Sendai 1 became the first Japanese reactor restarted after the...

Onagawa

Civil PowerJapan

Three boiling water reactors closest to the 2011 epicenter that survived the great tsunami behind their seawall while the town beh...

JRR-3

ResearchJapan

The third Japanese research reactor and the first designed domestically, built at Tokai in 1962 and rebuilt in 1990 as a 20 MW uni...

Rokkasho

ReprocessingJapan

The huge plant in Aomori prefecture intended to reprocess Japanese fuel and close the nuclear cycle, under construction and commis...

JT-60SA

FusionJapan

The largest operating superconducting tokamak in the world at Naka, jointly built by Japan and the European fusion program, starte...

Monju

Civil PowerJapan

A 280 MW prototype fast breeder reactor in Tsuruga, Fukui prefecture. A sodium leak and fire in December 1995, followed by an atte...