Tokyo Electric Power (TEPCO) has restarted commercial operations at Unit 6 of its Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear plant (a large facility on Japan's northwestern coast in Niigata Prefecture) on the afternoon of the 16th. The reactor, which had been offline since the Fukushima Daiichi disaster in 2011, was reactivated in January this year before transitioning to full commercial generation. The resumption marks the first time in approximately 14 years that electricity from Kashiwazaki-Kariwa has been supplied to the greater Tokyo metropolitan area and surrounding regions.