Criticized for its massive use of coal, the country wants to fulfill its carbon neutrality objectives by 2050. With the aim of bringing the nuclear share to 20-22 % of the energy bouquet by 2030, against 4 % in 2020.
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Declarations deemed “encouraging” by the main Japanese employers ‘confederation, Keidanren, but criticized by the nuclear citizens’ information center (CNIC, NGO opposite to nuclear) because formulated “without the slightest consultation”. The reactions did not take long after the announcement on Wednesday August 24 by the Japanese Prime Minister, Fumio Kishida, of the revival of seven nuclear reactors by 2023, of a reflection to extend the duration of use of the reactors to the -the seventy years, and especially the possibility of building new ones.
m. Kishida was expressed during a committee meeting for the green transformation set up in July to reflect on the ways to achieve the environmental objectives of the third world economy. “Faced with the risk of electricity shortage, we have to take all the necessary measures,” he said. Mr. Kishida also asked the Commission to present concrete measures by the end of the year, in particular to “better make the public understand” the interest of nuclear.
Japan is undergoing the full force of the outbreak of energy prices and tensions consecutive to the war in Ukraine on gas and oil supplies. Criticized for its massive use of coal, it must also fulfill its objectives of carbon neutrality by 2050. For this, it wants to bring the share of nuclear to 20-22 % of the energy bouquet by 2030, against 4 % In 2020.
The accent put on nuclear and the prospect of a revival of the construction of new reactors constitute a rupture with the policy followed since the earthquake and the tsunami of March 11, 2011 which caused the merger of three of the six reactors From the Fukushima Dai-Ithi plant, triggering the worst nuclear disaster from Chernobyl. The government then arrested the country’s 54 reactors which generated 30 % of its electricity. The Prime Minister of the time, Naoto Kan (Democrat, today in opposition), had proposed the “realization of a society operating without nuclear” because of the inability to “fully ensure security”.
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Since his return to power at the end of 2012, the Liberal Democratic Party (PLD) has been boosting nuclear power. This strategy involves efforts to minimize the impact of Fukushima’s disaster, the resolution of which should take several decades. In 2013, the Prime Minister of the time, Shinzo Abe, said that the situation at the disaster power plant was “under control”.
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