Russia’s war in Ukraine has created the “best opportunity” for Japan’s nuclear industry to stage a comeback since the 2011 Fukushima disaster, according to the country’s largest reactor maker.
Akihiko Kato, nuclear division head at Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, said in an interview with the Financial Times that nuclear energy was a geopolitically safer alternative to Russian energy.
“It may be challenging to import fuel from Russia in the future. People are realising that as long as we import fuel from overseas, there will always be fear of instability,” Kato said, speaking at the company’s Tokyo headquarters.