Japan Embraces Nuclear Power, Cancels Phase Out Plans

 Japan reverses nuclear energy phase-out policy amid global fuel shortages, climate change

• Nuclear power serves an important role as a carbon-free baseload energy source in achieving supply stability and carbon neutrality
• Japan must maximize the use of existing nuclear reactors by restarting as many of them as possible and prolonging the operating life of old reactors beyond their 60-year limit, and by developing next-generation reactors to replace them

Japan has reversed its earlier plan to phase out nuclear energy by 2030

• In a reversal, the new policy says nuclear power provides stable output and serves "an important role as a carbon-free baseload energy source in achieving supply stability and carbon neutrality"
• The council also adopted plans to make renewables Japan's main energy source and further promote hydrogen and ammonia as well as off-shore wind power.

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