As part of the government's commitment to strengthening energy independence and compensating for energy shortages, Japan has restarted Unit 6 at the world's largest nuclear power plant, the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant. However, the return of nuclear capacity has exposed a systemic problem: the industry is critically short of storage space for spent nuclear materials, and a coherent concept for their long-term disposal remains absent. …
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As part of the government's commitment to strengthening energy independence and compensating for energy shortages, Japan has restarted Unit 6 at the world's largest nuclear power plant, the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant. However, the return of nuclear capacity has exposed a systemic problem: the industry is critically short of storage space for spent nuclear materials, and a coherent concept for their long-term disposal remains absent. …