According to an AP report, nuclear accounts for 30 per cent of the country’s energy mix and the country intended to raise it to 50 per cent before the disaster.
Mr Kan admitted Japan lagged behind Europe and the U.S. in terms of renewable energy and will make a more concentrated effort to adopt it and promote it, although he did not provide any precise figures.
The announcement is likely to please Japanese people who took to the streets last week to protest against nuclear power. 80,000 people have been evacuated from the nuclear spill area and only now small groups are being allowed back into the exclusion zone to gather belongings under intense official supervision. Quite likely they will not go back to their homes permanently again.
