Leaked details of the government’s new energy plan suggest that nuclear power will be phased-out by the 2030s. In this Weekly we argue that the main reason Japan coped without nuclear power this summer was weakness in the economy, not something it would hope to repeat. Voluntary restraint on power use and use of private generators by businesses also helped but were supplementary.
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