Japan Launches Plan To Restore 17 Nuclear Plants and To Start Constructing New Plants

Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has lived up to his campaign promise to restore nuclear power in Japan. Japan shut down 46 of the country’s 50 Nuclear plants after the Fukushima collapse in 2011, and only nine have re-opened since that time. Nuclear power provided a third of the nation’s electricity before the accident; now it is less than 8%.