YEAR FOUNDED The largest nuclear power station in the world by output capacity , Kashiwazaki-Kariwa is based on a 4.2 square kilometre site in Japan . Located close to the Sea of Japan , which the site utilises for REVENUE cooling water , construction of the plant began in 1980 by

IN XXXXXXXXX the DOLLARS Tokyo Electric Power Company and finished five years later .

Containing seven operational units - five at 1,067MW and two

at 1,315MW - the reactors are fuelled by low-enriched uranium . Following NUMBER OF

a high-magnitude earthquake in 2011 - the most powerful EMPLOYEES in Japanese history - all of the plant ’ s units were shut down for safety inspections , although the plant was relatively unaffected by the earthquake directly . As of 2020 , however , the reactors have still not been brought back to functional use .

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