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No to nuclear: Japan wants reactors phased out, post-Fukushima Japan is less reliant on atomic energy, but concerns are growing about its return to climate-damaging fossil fuels. by Kelly Olsen 19 Dec 2019
Japan's anti-nuclear movement grew rapidly after the Fukushima disaster. Experts doubt that the country's nuclear plants will ever generate the same levels of energy as they once did. [File: Toru Hanai/Reuters] Tokyo, Japan - At the end of a decade in which northeastern Japan was devastated by a tsunami that triggered a nuclear disaster at Fukushima, atomic energy looks unlikely to make a comeback. In the nearly nine years following the world’s worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl, the country’s reliance on atomic power for electricity generation has plummeted to between 3 and 5 percent from about 30 percent before the disaster, according to the Tokyo-based Citizens’ Nuclear Information Center. 1