Overview: Reactor Restart and Energy Impact Officials at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant in Niigata hope that the No. 6 reactor, which restarted operations last month after 14 years of closure, will cut Japan’s LNG imports through the Strait of Hormuz by about 30 percent. Takeyuki Inagaki, the plant manager, said in an interview on … Continue reading Japan restarts nuclear plant after 14 years, eyes 30% cut in LNG imports as Hormuz chokes supplies