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NEW DELHI: India holds the world’s largest identified thorium resources, according to the latest U.S. Geological Survey compilation, a position that has long underpinned New Delhi’s interest in using the metal as part of its nuclear energy program. The USGS’s

TOKYO: Japan on Feb. 9 restarted a reactor at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power station in Niigata Prefecture, bringing the country back to production at the world’s largest nuclear plant by capacity after a late-January shutdown tied to a monitoring alarm.

MENA Newswire, TOKYO: Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. began shutting down the No. 6 reactor at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant on Thursday, a day after restarting the unit for the first time since Japan’s 2011 Fukushima Daiichi disaster.

Global energy demand increased sharply in 2024, rising by 2.2% and nearly doubling its average annual growth rate of the previous decade, according to the latest Global Energy Review released by the International Energy Agency (IEA). The report attributes the

Global electricity demand is projected to grow at its fastest rate in recent years, increasing by nearly 4% annually through 2027, according to a new report from the International Energy Agency (IEA) released today. The surge in power consumption is