Japan’s prime minister said the country is prepared to restart more of its idled nuclear reactors, and look at building more power generation facilities with next-generation nuclear technology.
The comments from Prime Minister Fumio Kishida during an Aug. 24 news conference in Tokyo signal a shift in Japan’s thinking about nuclear power after the country idled its reactors, and adopted more stringent safety standards before any reactor could restart, after a massive earthquake and tsunami caused a meltdown in March 2011 at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant.