Japan’s Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant, the world’s largest by potential capacity, is set to restart on Wednesday for the first time since the 2011 Fukushima disaster, its operator Tokyo Electric Power (TEPCO) said, despite ongoing safety concerns among local residents.

Japan has taken a decisive step toward restarting the world’s largest nuclear power plant, nearly 15 years after the Fukushima disaster, after the Niigata region voted on Monday to allow operations to resume — a milestone in the country’s gradual return to nuclear energy.

Japanese local authorities approved the restart of the world’s largest nuclear plant on Friday, marking the first step toward resuming operations since the 2011 Fukushima disaster.

All 4,000 workers at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant were evacuated on Wednesday after tsunami warnings were issued across the country, officials confirmed.

Tokyo Electric Power Company announced on Tuesday that, due to "unprecedented technological challenges," it has postponed the removal of hundreds of tons of radioactive waste from the tsunami-damaged Fukushima nuclear power plant until 2037.

Japan on Thursday commenced the ninth round of releasing nuclear-contaminated wastewater from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant into the Pacific Ocean.

China announced on Friday that it will gradually resume imports of seafood from Japan after both nations reached a consensus regarding Tokyo’s release of treated nuclear wastewater from the Fukushima nuclear plant.

Japan has completed the seventh batch of releasing treated radioactive water into the sea from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, News.Az reports citing Tokyo-based Kyodo News.