Japan to keep using nuclear in new energy plan

channelnewsasia.com TOKYO: Japan on Friday said nuclear power would remain an important source of energy as the government approved a new Basic Energy Plan, the first policy of its kind since the 2011 Fukushima disaster. The government of conservative Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said atomic generation would resume once regulators were sure of the safety of each reactor, all of which were switched off after the tsunami-sparked catastrophe at the Fukushima plant. The move comes despite widespread public unease over a technology once almost unquestioningly accepted as necessary in resource-poor Japan. Polls suggest more than half of the population is against restarting the reactors. to read more: channelnewsasia.com