Japan’s PM expresses clear support for nuclear and renewable energy

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has affirmed that nuclear energy is as important to the country’s ‘Green Transformation’ (GX) as is renewable energy. He was addressing, via video, the second meeting of the country’s Green Transformation Implementation Council, “World Nuclear News” has reported. “[R]enewable energy and nuclear power are decarbonised energies that are indispensable for promoting GX,” affirmed Kishida. He asked the Council to submit a report, by the end of this year, “on all measures, including the institutional framework for evaluating these as options for the future, and how the parties concerned should make efforts to further deepen public understanding”. The report should present “concrete conclusions”.