Japan will retain nuclear power

Will maintain its current share of nuclear energy. Japan's government will maintain nuclear energy’s share in its energy mix with the proviso that safety is assured. Media sources said the Japanese government will revise its current energy policy, devised in 2010 by the end of 2013. The new policy will contain revisions and reflections upon the Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear disaster of March 2011. Policy revision work will begin in November. A subcommittee called the Advisory Committee for Natural Resources and Energy will be in charge of revisions. Japan current energy policy calls nuclear power a key source of electric power. Japan also has a policy to increase the proportion of its power generation that produces no greenhouse gases or carbon dioxide to 70% non-emitting sources by 2030. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said his government intends to cut Japan's reliance upon nuclear energy wherever possible.