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The Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) included continuing atomic power in their election promises last year and won a huge victory, so I think nuclear experts might have regained some of their confidence in the technology.

Kansai University professor of social psychology Shoji Tsuchida, referring to the results of a survey that show 70% of nuclear energy experts with the Atomic Energy Society of Japan (AESJ) remain comfortable with nuclear power.… Read

A cheap currency may drive energy prices up beyond the threshold of pain for consumers and businesses. In that context, the government may be forced to consider restarting the country's arsenal of nuclear power plants, which provide affordable juice for the nearly $6 trillion economy.

Alex Ashby, research analyst at Global X Fund, saying that Japan's aggressive monetary policy and its sliding currency may have an unintended side-effect: pushing the country back into the embrace of nuclear technology. (CNBC) Read

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