{"id":5301,"date":"2021-06-07T17:37:40","date_gmt":"2021-06-07T08:37:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jaif.or.jp\/en-renew\/?p=5301"},"modified":"2021-06-08T17:16:56","modified_gmt":"2021-06-08T08:16:56","slug":"jema-proposes-that-nuclear-power-be-maintained-at-a-certain-scale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jaif.or.jp\/en\/news\/5301","title":{"rendered":"JEMA Proposes that Nuclear Power Be Maintained at a Certain Scale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Regarding the positioning of nuclear power, it says that adjustable power sources will be necessary in order to achieve carbon neutrality, namely, low- and no-carbon power that can be baseload. From the viewpoint of ensuring economic rationality, nuclear power will have to be maintained at a certain level into the future as well.<\/p>\n<p>The proposal also says a clear policy is required on the matter of new and replacement reactors so as to accelerate decarbonization in the energy sector.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, the proposal says that nuclear power can contribute to meeting more diverse needs, such as future decarbonization through the development of small reactors as power sources for small-scale grids not requiring substantial initial investment, and future reactors\u2014including high-temperature gas-cooled reactors (HTGRs)\u2014for a range of industrial uses, including hydrogen production.<\/p>\n<p>Thus, in addition to clarifying the national policy on such future reactors, national support needs to be continued and strengthened for R&amp;D and demonstration experiments currently being carried out on those reactors, given their lengthy development times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Regarding the positioning of nuclear power, it says that adjustable power sources will be necessary in order to achieve carbon neutrality, namely, low- and no-carbon power that can be baseload. From the viewpoint of ensuring economic rationality, nuclear power will have to be maintained at a certain level into the future as well. The proposal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5300,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,1],"tags":[188,186],"class_list":["post-5301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry","category-news","tag-jema","tag-strategic-energy-plan"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jaif.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jaif.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jaif.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jaif.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jaif.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5301"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jaif.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5302,"href":"https:\/\/www.jaif.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5301\/revisions\/5302"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jaif.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jaif.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jaif.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jaif.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}