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Japan will maintain atomic power as a major part of its energy policy despite the country’s ongoing nuclear crisis tsunami-crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi power plant, a top official said on Sunday.
Deputy chief cabinet secretary Yo****o Sengoku also said the government has no plans to shut down any more functioning nuclear reactors other three at the Hamaoka power plant in central Japan.
The plant asked Friday to halt the units until a seawall is built and backup are improved at Hamaoka. “Our energy policy is to stick to nuclear power,” Sengoku said on a weekly talk show on public broadcaster NHK. He said Hamaoka was an exception and that the government’s closure Friday did not mean a departure from its nuclear-reliant policy. Chubu Electric Power Co, which runs the three Hamaoka reactors, its decision Saturday on the government’s shutdown request. The main concern is that shutting down the reactors would likely power shortages expected this summer. Nuclear energy provides than one-third of Japan’s electricity.
Since the March 11 disasters, have reduced lighting, stores have trimmed service hours subway operators have shut air conditioning to join a nationwide effort. The government has been reviewing the safety of the country’s 54 reactors since a March 11 earthquake and tsunami crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant in the north.
The disaster left than 25,000 people dead or missing on the northeast coast and the worst nuclear crisis since Chernobyl in 1986.
The Hamaoka plant, which is about 125 miles (200 kilometres) west Tokyo, in an area where a major quake is expected within decades, been a major concern for years. However, Sengoku said there is no need to worry” about other plants in the country. “Scientifically, our conclusion at the moment,” he said. Chubu Electric executives failed to reach a decision on Saturday over shutdown request and will meet again after the weekend, company Mikio Inomata said.
Deputy chief cabinet secretary Yo****o Sengoku also said the government has no plans to shut down any more functioning nuclear reactors other three at the Hamaoka power plant in central Japan.
The plant asked Friday to halt the units until a seawall is built and backup are improved at Hamaoka. “Our energy policy is to stick to nuclear power,” Sengoku said on a weekly talk show on public broadcaster NHK. He said Hamaoka was an exception and that the government’s closure Friday did not mean a departure from its nuclear-reliant policy. Chubu Electric Power Co, which runs the three Hamaoka reactors, its decision Saturday on the government’s shutdown request. The main concern is that shutting down the reactors would likely power shortages expected this summer. Nuclear energy provides than one-third of Japan’s electricity.
Since the March 11 disasters, have reduced lighting, stores have trimmed service hours subway operators have shut air conditioning to join a nationwide effort. The government has been reviewing the safety of the country’s 54 reactors since a March 11 earthquake and tsunami crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant in the north.
The disaster left than 25,000 people dead or missing on the northeast coast and the worst nuclear crisis since Chernobyl in 1986.
The Hamaoka plant, which is about 125 miles (200 kilometres) west Tokyo, in an area where a major quake is expected within decades, been a major concern for years. However, Sengoku said there is no need to worry” about other plants in the country. “Scientifically, our conclusion at the moment,” he said. Chubu Electric executives failed to reach a decision on Saturday over shutdown request and will meet again after the weekend, company Mikio Inomata said.
