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What Price Nuclear Zero for Japan?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

Miguel Quintana
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For the first time in 42 years, the portion of nuclear power in Japan's energy mix reached zero on May 5 with the shutdown of Tomari's unit 3, operated by Hokkaido Electric on Japan's northernmost island. Difficulties in obtaining local approval for the restart of two reactors in Fukui Prefecture, combined with delays in establishing a new regulatory agency for the nuclear industry, could force Japan to ride out the summer months of peak demand by relying exclusively on thermal plants and energy-saving measures – a prospect the government is already taking into account.

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 10 , Issue 54 , December 2012 , e111
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Between 2012 and 2014 we posted a number of articles on contemporary affairs without giving them volume and issue numbers or dates. Often the date can be determined from internal evidence in the article, but sometimes not. We have decided retrospectively to list all of them as Volume 10, Issue 54 with a date of 2012 with the understanding that all were published between 2012 and 2014.' As footnote

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[1] Interview with the author on May 2.

[2] See also the opinion poll conducted in Fukui and the Kinki region by the Asahi Shimbun (April 23).

[3] Interview with Australia's ABC radio, May 5, available here. Scalise was interviewed by the author in late March for an article on Japan's energy policy, available here.

[4] Crisis-hit Japan mulls shift to renewable energy, Asahi Shimbun (May 3, 2012), available here.

[5] Nagata Kazuaki, “New Push Should Be Made for Renewables,” Japan Times, May 6, 2012 http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/nn20120506a6.html