The general apprehension over nuclear energy stems from the cost and long construction time of new reactors. - AFP
TOKYO: Japan is decidedly embracing nuclear energy again, 13 years after it was jolted out of what it has come to refer to as the “nuclear safety” myth by the Fukushima Daiichi meltdown, which ranks among the world’s worst nuclear disasters.
A draft of its seventh Strategic Energy Plan – issued on Tuesday (Dec 17) and likely to be approved wholesale by Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba’s Cabinet – scraps language from past policy documents that reflected a resolve to “minimise reliance” on atomic energy.
