Japan sets eyes on nuclear energy production as part of go green agenda

New Delhi, Aug 26: In a major policy shift that will have international ramifications, Japan has decided to restart its inactive nuclear power plants as well as develop the next-generation reactors to avert an energy crisis and go green.

At a conference on industrial transformation and decarbonisation, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said: “The government will take the lead in various measures to restart our nuclear power plants,” Japanese news agency Kyodo reported on Wednesday.

For Japan, this would be a big policy turnaround as it had turned its back on nuclear power after the disaster at the Fukushima nuclear plant in 2011.