POINT OF VIEW/ Hirohito Ono: We cannot allow return to nuclear power without proper debate
The run-up to July's Upper House election will likely focus on the economy and foreign policy issues, but one topic that must be discussed is the Abe administration's nuclear energy policy.

In its platform for the December Lower House election, the Liberal Democratic Party said it "would seek the establishment of an economic and social structure that did not have to depend on nuclear power."

Although that was not a position seeking to move away from nuclear energy, it did imply efforts to think about nuclear energy in relative terms.

However, even that stance has become much more ambiguous.

The Abe administration is leaning toward the resumption of operations at nuclear reactors. And it still insists on pushing through with the troubled nuclear fuel recycling program. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has visited India, Turkey and central Europe with a sales pitch for Japan's nuclear power technology.

Source: [link to ajw.asahi.com]

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