Japan's ruling party wants 20 percent nuclear power in energy mix: media [View all]
Source: Reuters
Japan's ruling party wants a revived nuclear power sector to eventually make up a fifth of electricity generation, local media said, a controversial move for a public opposed to nuclear power in the wake of the Fukushima disaster.
A panel of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's Liberal Democratic Party approved a proposal in a closed-door session on Thursday that would boost stable "baseload" energy supplies - nuclear, coal, hydroelectric and geothermal - to about 60 percent by 2030 from 40 percent now, according to reports in several major media outlets.
This can only be achieved, the Asahi newspaper said, by getting nuclear back up to 20 percent of the energy mix, given the difficulty of burning more goal amid a global push to cut greenhouse gases or wringing more hydro power out of Japan's heavily dammed rivers.
The LDP will present the proposal as early as next week to Abe, the Asahi said. Abe's government supports reviving nuclear power, but must walk a delicate line as it deliberates the best energy mix for the world's third-biggest economy.
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Neocon Abe is going to force this on the citizens who don't want it:
ASAHI POLL: 59% oppose restart of nuclear reactors
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201403180058