{"id":516867,"date":"2022-08-25T11:30:52","date_gmt":"2022-08-25T06:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=516867"},"modified":"2022-08-25T13:33:30","modified_gmt":"2022-08-25T08:03:30","slug":"japan-considers-developing-new-nuclear-reactors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/japan-considers-developing-new-nuclear-reactors\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan considers developing new nuclear reactors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Japanese PM Fumio Kishida on Wednesday instructed his government to consider developing safer, smaller nuclear reactors, signalling a renewed emphasis on nuclear energy years after many of the country&#8217;s plants were shut down. Kishida made the comment at a \u201cgreen transformation\u201d conference on bolstering the country&#8217;s efforts to curb emissions of greenhouse gases.<\/p>\n<p>Japan has pledged to reach carbon neutrality by 2050. Anti-nuclear sentiment and safety concerns rose sharply in Japan after the 2011 Fukushima nuclear plant disaster, but the Govt has been pushing for a return to nuclear energy amid worries of power shortages  following Russia&#8217;s invasion of Ukraine and a global push to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japanese PM Fumio Kishida on Wednesday instructed his government to consider developing safer, smaller nuclear reactors, signalling a renewed emphasis on nuclear energy years after many of the country&#8217;s plants were shut down. Kishida made the comment at a \u201cgreen transformation\u201d conference on bolstering the country&#8217;s efforts to curb emissions of greenhouse gases. Japan has pledged to reach carbon neutrality by 2050. Anti-nuclear sentiment and safety concerns rose sharply in Japan after the 2011 Fukushima nuclear plant disaster, but the Govt has been pushing for a return to nuclear energy amid worries of power shortages following Russia&#8217;s invasion of Ukraine [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,244,144],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-516867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-pioneer","category-the-pioneer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=516867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516867\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=516867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=516867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=516867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}