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The draft policy states that nuclear power should meet nearly 20 per cent of Japan’s energy needs by the fiscal year 2040 and renewable energy 40-50 per cent, more than doubling the utilisation ...
Japan shut down all its nuclear reactors after a powerful 2011 earthquake and tsunami triggered a meltdown at the Fukushima nuclear plant, creating the world's worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl.
The powerful earthquake that hit Japan's western coast on New Year's Day has underscored the country's exposure to natural disasters, casting fresh doubt over a push to bring its nuclear capacity ...
TOKYO (Reuters) -Foreign and defence ministers from Japan and the United States will hold security talks on July 28 that for the first time will cover "extended deterrence", a term used to ...
A team from the International Atomic Energy Agency on Monday began its review of Japan's plan to begin releasing more than a million tons of treated radioactive water into the sea from the wrecked ...
MOSCOW (Reuters) -Any deployment of U.S. nuclear weapons to Japan in the framework of an "Asian NATO" would lead to a collapse in regional stability, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria ...
In 1954, Japan budgeted 230 million yen for nuclear energy, marking the beginning of Japan's nuclear program. The Atomic Energy Basic Law limited activities to only peaceful purposes. [14] The first nuclear power plant in Japan, the Tōkai Nuclear Power Plant, was built by the UK's GEC and was commissioned in 1966. [citation needed]
TOKYO (Reuters) -The make-up of Japan's future government was in flux on Monday after voters punished Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba's scandal-tainted coalition in a weekend snap election, leaving ...