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Japan
Abandoned Constructions
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Operating
15
Long-Term Outage
18
Closed
27
Number of Reactors
(as of August 2026)
39.2
Mean Age of Reactor Fleet
(as of August 2026)
9.2%
Stable
Nuclear Share in Electricity Production
(2025)
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WNISR
in the Media –
27 April 2021
Japan Times (Japan)
Tepco lapse a wake-up call for Japan’s nuclear security protocols, expert says
A series of security missteps at Tokyo Electric Power Co. Holdings Inc.’s Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear plant should serve as a wake-up call for operators over the importance of addressing a potential terrorism threat immediately after any breach is confirmed, a top expert in the field has said. By Osamu Tsukimori Published 13 April 2021 A series of security missteps at Tokyo Electric Power Co. Holdings Inc.’s Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear plant should serve as a wake-up call for operators (…)
WNISR
in the Media –
21 April 2021 [fr]
Le Soir (Belgium)
Mycle Schneider : «
La situation à la centrale de Fukushima n’est pas stabilisée
»
Dix ans après la catastrophe nucléaire, les autorités peinent toujours à maîtriser la situation. Pour le consultant international Mycle Schneider, l’atome est voué à disparaître comme source d’énergie. Entretien : Bernard Padoan Publié le 07 Mars 2021 Le 11 mars 2011, un puissant tremblement de terre au large de l’île de Honshu – la plus grande de l’archipel japonais –, d’une magnitude de 9,1 sur l’échelle de Richter, provoquait un tsunami qui a ravagé près de 600 kilomètres de côtes (…)
WNISR
in the Media –
6 April 2021 [fr]
Politis (France)
Nucléaire : Une filière mondiale sous perfusion
Le déclin du nucléaire dans le monde, amorcé avant Fukushima, s’est nettement accentué sous l’impact de la catastrophe, au point de menacer à terme la survie de cette technologie. Par Patrick Piro Publié le 3 Mars 2021 Tout est dit, ou presque, en un unique graphique. À son apogée, en 2002, le parc nucléaire mondial comptait 438 réacteurs en fonctionnement. En 2020, ce nombre est tombé à 412 (lire p. 20), relève le World Nuclear Industry Status Report (
WNISR
, État mondial annuel de (…)
WNISR
in the Media –
6 April 2021
Eco-Business (Singapore)
A decade on from Fukushima, it’s time for Southeast Asia to bury its nuclear dream
Other than to have mercy on soon-to-be-unemployed nuclear engineers, there is not a single reason why Southeast Asia shouldn’t leapfrog nuclear energy. Dangerous and expensive, the technology simply isn’t worth the hassle. By Tim Ha Published 12 March 2021 Every now and then, the debate resurfaces over whether nuclear power has a role to play in Southeast Asia’s energy transition. But as Japan marks a decade since the Fukushima disaster, the region needs to move on and see the technology (…)
WNISR
in the Media –
1 April 2021 [fr]
Les Échos (France)
La décennie où la Chine s’est imposée comme la locomotive de l’énergie nucléaire
SPECIAL
FUKUSHIMA
Alors que depuis la catastrophe de Fukushima de nombreux pays ont tourné le dos à l’énergie nucléaire, la Chine a persévéré. D’ici à 2030, elle doit devenir le premier producteur d’électricité nucléaire au monde. Par Sharon Wajsbrot Publié le 10 Mars 2021
SPECIAL
FUKUSHIMA
Alors que depuis la catastrophe de Fukushima de nombreux pays ont tourné le dos à l’énergie nucléaire, la Chine a persévéré. D’ici à 2030, elle doit devenir le premier producteur d’électricité (…)
WNISR
in the Media –
27 March 2021
Energy Monitor (U.K.)
Opinion: What is the future of nuclear power?
This is the question Energy Monitor has tried to answer over the past week, with a series of in-depth articles to mark the tenth anniversary of the Fukushima Daiichi disaster in Japan. Here is our conclusion. By Sonja van Renssen Published 22 March 2021 Over the past week, Energy Monitor has run a series of in-depth articles to mark the tenth anniversary of the Fukushima Daiichi disaster in Japan. The climate crisis has injected fresh impetus into the debate over the role of nuclear (…)
WNISR
in the Media –
Mycle Schneider,
25 March 2021
Kyodo News (Japan)
OPINION
: Nuclear power has become irrelevant — like it or not
File photo taken on Feb. 14, 2021, shows tanks storing treated water containing radioactive tritium on the premises of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi power plant about 10 years after the nuclear crisis. (Kyodo) By Mycle Schneider Published 16 March 2020
PARIS
– Ten years went by since the Fukushima Daiichi accident began. What happened in the United States, historically leading the world’s nuclear power programs and still operating the largest reactor fleet in the world? What are (…)
WNISR
in the Media –
15 March 2019
Japan Times (Japan)
In aftermath of Fukushima triple meltdown, Japan’s nuclear industry faces fierce headwind
This is the last in a five-part series examining how the northeast and the nation are progressing with efforts to deal with the March 2011 earthquake, tsunami and nuclear crisis. Japan Times, 11 March 2019
BY
SATOSHI
SUGIYAMA
Even after the Fukushima No. 1 crisis in March 2011 forced Japan to rethink its use of nuclear energy, the resource-scarce nation had hoped nuclear power would still serve it well. Although only nine of Japan’s 38 commercial reactors are currently operating (…)
WNISR
in the Media –
9 February 2019 [de]
Frankfurter Rundschau (Germany)
Atomkraft in Japan—Ein langsamer Tod
Japans Atombranche steckt seit Fukushima in der Krise. Auch im Ausland stocken die Projekte. Die Analyse. Frankfurter Rundschau, 5 February 2019 von Felix Lill Es ist noch nicht lange her, da gab sich Japan ziemlich siegessicher. Das Atom-Desaster von Fukushima sei ärgerlich und teuer, keineswegs aber das Ende aller Tage. Die für Japans Volkswirtschaft so wichtige, vermeintlich billige Energie aus den gut 50 Reaktoren im ganzen Land sei unverzichtbar. Und ohne das Know-how der (…)
The Annual Reports –
4 September 2018
Nuclear Power: Strategic Asset, Liability or Increasingly Irrelevant?
The World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2018 Released
Paris, London, 4 September 2018. Nuclear power plants added a total of 7-gigawatt (
GW
) capacity to the world’s electricity grids in 2017 and the first half of 2018, a tiny fraction of the total from all sources, which is estimated at some 257
GW
(net) in 2017, including 157
GW
of renewable capacity (the largest increase ever). Over that 18-month period, six reactors started up in China, two in Russia and one in Pakistan. For the third year in a row, excluding China, global nuclear power generation has declined, finds the World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2018 (
WNISR2018
).
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