Japan’s Biggest Business Lobby Calls For Nuclear Power Expansion

  • Keidanren releases recommendations for energy strategy review
  • Atomic power will be crucial to meet rising industrial demand
Tokai Dai-ni nuclear power plant in Tokai Village in Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan.Photographer: Noriko Hayashi/Bloomberg
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Japan’s biggest business lobby Keidanren called on the government to include nuclear power expansion in the national energy strategy currently under revision.

Electrification, use of generative artificial intelligence, and new data centers and semiconductor chip factories will increase electricity demand from industries, the lobby group said on Friday.