{"id":47819,"date":"2022-08-25T13:32:55","date_gmt":"2022-08-25T04:32:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/25\/japan-eyes-return-to-nuclear-power-more-than-a-decade-after-fukushima-disaster"},"modified":"2022-08-25T13:32:55","modified_gmt":"2022-08-25T04:32:55","slug":"japan-eyes-return-to-nuclear-power-more-than-a-decade-after-fukushima-disaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=47819","title":{"rendered":"Japan eyes return to nuclear power more than a decade after Fukushima disaster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Move designed to secure energy supplies would mark a dramatic shift in Japan\u2019s policy stance held since 2011 reactor meltdown<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/japan\">Japan<\/a> is considering building next-generation nuclear reactors and restarting idled plants in a major policy shift, 11 years after the triple meltdown at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/fukushima\">Fukushima<\/a> Daiichi nuclear power plant rocked the country\u2019s dependence on atomic energy.<\/p>\n<p>The prime minister, Fumio Kishida, said he had directed a government panel to look into how \u201cnext-generation nuclear reactors equipped with new safety mechanisms\u201d could be used to help Japan achieve its goal of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/climate-crisis\">carbon neutrality<\/a> by 2050. His \u201cgreen transformation\u201d council is expected to report back by the end of the year, he said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/25\/japan-eyes-return-to-nuclear-power-more-than-a-decade-after-fukushima-disaster\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Move designed to secure energy supplies would mark a dramatic shift in Japan\u2019s policy stance held since 2011 reactor meltdownJapan is considering building next-generation nuclear reactors and restarting idled plants in a major policy shift, 11 years af&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,493,88,570],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-energy","category-japan","category-nuclear-power"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47819"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47820,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47819\/revisions\/47820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}