Kan Promises Less Nuclear Power, Debate on Atomic Plants

Prime Minister Naoto Kan pledged to reduce Japan’s reliance on nuclear power and called for debate on whether private companies should be allowed to run atomic plants in light of the Fukushima disaster.

“We should reduce nuclear dependency in a planned, step-by-step manner,” Kan told reporters today in Tokyo. “We should eventually create a society where we can do without atomic energy.”