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By Yuka Obayashi and Katya Golubkova. TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan is set to push for more nuclear power in an energy policy update due next year, seeking stable electricity supply in face of growing ...
Nuclear power energy was a national strategic priority in Japan. As of March 2020, of the 54 nuclear reactors in Japan, there were 42 operable reactors but only 9 reactors in 5 power plants were actually operating. [5] A total of 24 reactors are scheduled for decommissioning or are in the process of being decommissioned. [6]
JAEA Information update, Japan Atomic Energy Agency; IAEA Update on Japan Earthquake, International Atomic Energy Agency; Nature Journal – Specials: Japan earthquake and nuclear crisis; TerraFly Timeline Aerial Imagery of Fukushima Nuclear Reactor after 2011 Tsunami and Earthquake; Documentary photographs: residential damage within "No Go ...
In July 2015, the government submitted its ideas for reducing greenhouse gas emissions to the United Nations, and the proposal included a target for nuclear power to meet at least 20% of Japan's electricity consumption by 2030. Renewable energy sources, such as hydropower but also solar power, would contribute 22% or more.
About 19,000 tons of spent fuel, a byproduct of nuclear power generation, is stored at power plants across Japan, taking up about 80% of their storage capacity, according to the economy and ...
U.S. Deputy Secretary of Energy David Turk and Japan's minister of education, sports, science and technology, Masahito Moriyama, met in Washington on Tuesday to discuss fusion. US, Japan announce ...
Japan will contribute 3 billion yen ($20 million) fund to establish Japan Chairs toward achieving a world without nuclear weapons at overseas research institutions and think tanks.
More than 70,000 fatalities were estimated. 9 August 1945. Nuclear bombing. Nagasaki. Bomb flown in on airplane and dropped over urban area; 21kt explosion. Main article: Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. United States of America aviators detonated nuclear bomb over Nagasaki.