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Funding law for areas home to nuclear plants eyed for renewal | The Asahi Shimbun Asia & Japan Watch
The central government plans to extend by 10 years a soon-to-sunset law that allows extra financial assistance to jurisdictions housing nuclear power plants--its first time up for renewal since the 2011 Fukushima disaster.
A law that allows the service life of nuclear reactors to extend beyond 60 years came into effect in Japan on Friday, in a context in which the government returns to atomic energy 14 years after the Fukushima disaster.Japan, the fourth world economy, aspires to carbon neutrality by 2050, but continues to rely heavily on fossil fuels, partly because many nuclear reactors were shut down after the Fukushima disaster in 2011.The Japanese government …
Tokyo. Japan implemented a law that allows the service life of its nuclear reactors to be extended to more than 60 years.This measure seeks to strengthen atomic energy to meet the growing demand driven by artificial intelligence and microprocessor factories, marking a shift in energy policy 14 years after the Fukushima disaster.Japan, the fourth world economy, aspires to carbon neutrality by 2050, but remains heavily dependent on fossil fuels, p…
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