TUJ energy expert on Japan's nuclear future

Is Japan's love affair with atomic energy officially over? Last week, anti-nuclear campaigners' hearts beat a little faster when Naoto Kan, the prime minister, announced the abandonment of Japan's previous target of relying on nuclear power for half of electricity generation by 2030. Plans needed to be discussed "from a clean slate," he said. Paul Scalise, an expert on Japanese energy policy at Temple University, Japan Campus, says even the original schedule would probably not have been enough to meet the 50 percent goal.
May 18, 2011 | Financial Times