For the first time for Japan, public support for nuclear restart is now at more than 60% since the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster, a former executive of the company said. International Energy Agency, reasons for possible energy shortages and “very cold winters”.
Nobuo Tanaka, president of the Innovation Forum for Cool Earth, said: “Japanese public support is more than 60% and this is the first time that support for nuclear power has started to increase by more than 50% after Fukushima accident. . He spoke at the 2022 Global Super Trends Conference.
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida in May announced that the country would take firm steps to restart nuclear power no load factory to stabilize energy supply and prices.
In 2011, Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant suffered a massive earthquake and tsunami, which killed nearly 16,000 people and caused the world’s worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl in 1986.
Although the Japanese public has reservations about the use of nuclear power, especially when it comes to safety issueTanaka said the future of nuclear power is a safer future, emphasizing the importance of reducing risks and maintaining “peaceful use” of nuclear power.
Energy crisis
Tanaka attributes the increase in public support to the possibility of “serious problems later this year” if Japan does not have nuclear power.
Tanaka said that Japan wants to secure its energy supply but is also working towards achieving carbon neutrality by 2050, and achieving that balance could become increasingly challenging.
Nuclear energy has been touted as a important option for decarbonization.
“Japan is trying to secure energy supplies, especially electricity, and at the same time trying to maintain its carbon neutral targets by 2050. So this is really (a) challenge,” he said. Japan has a lot to do.”
