{"id":137354,"date":"2025-02-12T07:55:31","date_gmt":"2025-02-12T05:55:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/japan-to-increase-nuclear-power-as-new-crises-overshadow-fears-of-fukushima-repeat\/"},"modified":"2025-02-12T07:55:31","modified_gmt":"2025-02-12T05:55:31","slug":"japan-to-increase-nuclear-power-as-new-crises-overshadow-fears-of-fukushima-repeat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/news\/japan-to-increase-nuclear-power-as-new-crises-overshadow-fears-of-fukushima-repeat\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan to increase nuclear power as new crises overshadow fears of Fukushima repeat"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\" data-trp-original-action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button\" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137354\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"trp-form-language\" value=\"en\"\/><\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\n<p>As Japan seeks to reinforce its power supply, the country is bracing for a boom in demand due to the rapid increase of data centres. These power-hungry facilities are essential for operating growth industries like cloud computing and artificial intelligence. Hokkaido Electric said it could meet this growing demand by restarting its reactors while Google-owner Alphabet has thrown its support behind nuclear power to help decarbonise its sprawling technological empire.<\/p>\n<p>Chair of the Atomic Energy Society of Japan Dr Hiroyuki Oigawa said the global support for net zero and energy security concerns were &#8221;big factors for changing the people&#8217;s mind&#8221; about nuclear power. Nuclear advocates often argue that because these power plants don&#8217;t produce greenhouse gases during operation, they are essential in the fight against climate change. But these green credentials are challenged by those who point out that nuclear plants require huge volumes of water, produce toxic waste and are vulnerable to natural and geopolitical disasters.<\/p>\n<p>In the wake of Fukushima, Japan established an independent safety authority to set tougher standards and oversee the restarts. This has created headaches for power companies, who now must deal with an independent regulator rather than Japan&#8217;s pro-nuclear Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry. Before being granted approval for a restart, power companies need to complete an array of safety upgrades, from backup power supplies to massive tsunami walls.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2025-02-12\/rebirth-of-japanese-nuclear-power-industry\/104922298\">ABC<\/a><\/p>\n<p><p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/environmental-news-en\/6-657\/\">Japan to increase nuclear power as new crises overshadow fears of Fukushima repeat<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[575,4238,893,9509],"class_list":["post-137354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-environmental-news-en","tag-fukushima","tag-japan","tag-nuclear-power"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137354\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}