JAPANESE NUCLEAR SECTOR HAS GOVERNMENT BACKING – BUT FACES SERIOUS POLITICAL AND TECHNICAL HEADWINDS
March 1st, 2019
THE JAPANESE nuclear sector may have the backing of its government, but a combination of technical challenges and public unpopularity is impeding plans to restore the country’s nuclear capacity towards its generation before the Fukushima disaster in 2011.
During a news conference on January 1, Hiroaki Nakanishi, chairman of the Japan Business Federation, was pessimistic about the industry’s future. With only nine of the country’s reactors operating, out of the 54 online before a magnitude-9 earthquake and a tsunami crippled the plant at Fukushima in March ...
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