{"id":229801,"date":"2026-01-25T23:47:45","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T05:47:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/japan-wakes-up-worlds-biggest-nuclear-plant-15-years-after-fukushima-disaster"},"modified":"2026-01-25T23:47:45","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T05:47:45","slug":"japan-wakes-up-worlds-biggest-nuclear-plant-15-years-after-fukushima-disaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/japan-wakes-up-worlds-biggest-nuclear-plant-15-years-after-fukushima-disaster","title":{"rendered":"Japan wakes up world\u2019s biggest nuclear plant 15 years after Fukushima disaster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/japan-wakes-up-worlds-biggest-nuclear-plant-15-years-after-fukushima-disaster.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Just under 15 years after the catastrophic nuclear accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, Japan has officially restarted a reactor at the world\u2019s largest nuclear plant.<\/p>\n<p>While many argue for the benefits that nuclear power can provide amid a rapidly growing <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.uniladtech.com\/climate-change\">climate crisis<\/a>, the dangers that it poses are evident across a number of notably horrific incidents over the years.<\/p>\n<p>Disasters in Kyshtym and <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.uniladtech.com\/news\/story-behind-two-women-sitting-radioactive-chernobyl-261540-20250826\">Chernobyl<\/a> have displayed the dangerous potential that <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.uniladtech.com\/science\/news\/video-shows-man-exploring-chernobyl-reactor-pit-radiation-061977-20250514\">a nuclear accident can cause<\/a>, and few have been quite as devastating as the incident that occurred in Fukushima back in 2011.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just under 15 years after the catastrophic nuclear accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, Japan has officially restarted a reactor at the world\u2019s largest nuclear plant. While many argue for the benefits that nuclear power can provide amid a rapidly growing climate crisis, the dangers that it poses are evident across a number [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,873],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-nuclear-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229801\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}