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The Straits Times (16 June 2025)

Walter Sim

Japan must make the most of its existing nuclear power plants and enhance their output efficiencies, given burgeoning energy demands, said the government’s annual energy report on June 13.

The 133-page Energy White Paper 2025 noted how data centres and semiconductor factories are vital to the world’s fourth-largest economy, adding that it is crucial to prevent “investment opportunities from being lost due to an inability to secure enough decarbonised power sources”.

The paper’s comment on nuclear energy comes half a year after Japan had, in its seventh Strategic Energy Plan, scrapped wording that it would “minimise reliance” on the source.

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