“The Russian invasion of Ukraine has enormously transformed the global energy landscape” and therefore “Japan needs to keep in mind potential crisis scenarios in the future”said the ruler.
“As for the nuclear plants, in addition to ensuring the operation of the 10 reactors that are already onlinethe government will lead an effort to do everything possible to restart” the others whose safety has been approved by the country’s nuclear agency, he added.
Kishida urged those attending the meeting to prepare “the construction of new generation nuclear reactors equipped with new security mechanisms” and “make maximum use of existing nuclear plants.”
“Please speed up your discussions on all possible measures, based on opinions from government and opposition parties as well as experts, to reach concrete conclusions by the end of the year,” he demanded.
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Like other countries, Japan has been facing constraints on its energy supplies since Russia invaded Ukraine six months ago.
The island also suffered historical heats in the current boreal summer, so the authorities asked the population to save energy as much as possible.
Nuclear power is a sensitive topic in japan since a tsunami in March 2011 caused an accident in the Fukushima plantin the worst nuclear disaster since the Ukrainian nuclear power plant in Chernobylin 1986.
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Eleven years later, 10 of Japan’s 33 nuclear reactors are activealthough not all operate year-round and the country still relies on imported fossil fuels.
Before the Fukushima accident, Japan got a third of its electricity from nuclear sources, but by 2020 the figure had fallen to less than 5%.
Source: Ambito
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