Thursday, July 14, 2011

Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan calls for phase-out of nuclear power

TOKYO ? Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan said in a television address to the country Wednesday that Japan should decrease and eventually eliminate its reliance on nuclear energy.

?We will aim to bring about a society that can exist without nuclear power,? he said.

The statement was Kan?s clearest yet about the appropriate long-term energy goals for a country dealing with the worst nuclear crisis in a quarter-century. But Kan did not address the strategy behind such a phase-out or its potential economic toll.

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