Japan says it needs nuclear power. Can host towns ever trust it again?

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KASHIWAZAKI, JAPAN - Growing up, Ms Mika Kasahara saw the nuclear power plant that hugs the coast of her hometown simply as the place where her father worked, a familiar fortress of cooling tanks and

steel lightning towers overlooking the Sea of Japan.After the disaster 11 years ago at a nuclear power station in Fukushima, where an earthquake and tsunami led to a triple meltdown, Japan took most of its nuclear plants offline.

For the first time since the Fukushima catastrophe, a small majority of the Japanese public has expressed support for bringing the plants back online, indicating a growing awareness that the world's third-largest economy may struggle to keep the lights on as it confronts its own limited resources during a time of geopolitical upheaval.

When Ms Kasahara's father died of esophagus and lung cancer three years ago, she wondered if his two decades inside the plant had been a factor. A traffic jam during an evacuation drill left her fearing that she and her family would be trapped by a nuclear accident.According to a 2020 survey by the city of Kashiwazaki, close to 20% of residents want to decommission the plant immediately.

His challenger, Naomi Katagiri, a 72-year-old architect, promises to block the resumption of operations in Kashiwazaki and Kariwa.

 

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