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Ukraine war is ‘best opportunity’ for nuclear comeback since Fukushima, industry says
Domestically generated power is geopolitically safer than gas imports, according to Japan’s largest reactor maker
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Akihiko Kato, nuclear division head at Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, said in an interview with the Financial Times that nuclear energy was a geopolitically safer alternative to Russian energy. “It may be challenging to import fuel from Russia in the future.
People are realising that as long as we import fuel from overseas, there will always be fear of instability,” Kato said, speaking at the company’s Tokyo headquarters. “Many have changed their views on nuclear power, which is a stable and a domestic source of energy.”
Japan’s heavy reliance on Russian gas imports has rekindled the debate over nuclear power in the country more than a decade after regulators took most plants offline following one of the worst nuclear disasters in history. The world’s third-largest economy has been plunged into a power crisis exacerbated by the soaring cost of liquefied natural gas and oil. Japan imports about 9 per cent of its LNG from Russia, putting it in a difficult diplomatic position as its western allies impose sanctions on Moscow.