The highly secured grounds housing its seven reactors cover 4.2 million square meters. Its operator, Tokyo Electric Power Co., or TEPCO, compares its size to 90 Tokyo Domes, the home stadium of Japan’s most successful baseball team, the Yomiuri Giants. For another perhaps more commonly known landmark: this equals to a size nearly 25% bigger than New York’s Central Park.
Kashiwazaki-Kariwa, often called KK, hasn’t generated electricity since 2012, when it was shut down in the aftermath of an earthquake and tsunami in 2011 that caused a reactor to melt down at a similar plant on the opposite side of Japan.
I recently got a glimpse inside efforts to restart the facility.
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