Eleven years after Fukushima, the country wants to revive the sector.
The Japanese government intends to give a serious boost to the resumption of nuclear power in the country.
Weakened and controversial since the disaster, this energy sector is coming back into favor in the face of strong global energy tensions.
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida announced on Wednesday that a reflection would be carried out on several fronts, including on the possible construction of "new generation nuclear reactors", which would be a major turning point for Japan.
The Fukushima trauma
The Fukushima disaster, on March 11, 2011, occurred following the tsunami that swept over the Japanese coast.
The Fukushima Daichi plant had been flooded, which had caused the total loss of power supplies, as well as the melting of the core of three reactors.
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While the earthquake and the tsunami had caused the death of nearly 16,000 people, the prospect of a nuclear accident similar to that of Chernobyl in 1986 had pushed Japan to put almost all of these nuclear power plants to a halt.
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