Japan eyes smaller nuclear role but no exit strategy
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Some experts and lawmakers also want to set a target to exit nuclear power by 2050, if not earlier, but are meeting fierce resistance from those who want to throw the industry a lifeline.

A draft proposal of five energy mix options, with nuclear’s share ranging from zero to 35 percent, was presented at the panel’s meeting on Thursday. But the draft dropped a variation that would have set a 15 percent target for nuclear power by 2030 while having that share fall to zero two decades later.

“They (the secretariat) did not want to make it clear that this is an option because they don’t want to phase out the nuclear industry,” Takahashi said.

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