Mr. Suzuki met with the administration's point man on nuclear-proliferation issues, including Deputy Energy Secretary Daniel Poneman, and with Assistant Secretary of State Thomas Countryman, said U.S. and Japanese officials.

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The 111-page coalition agreement between the SPD and the Greens promised to turn the state into a paradise for renewable energy and a purgatory for coal and nuclear power.

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Upon coming into office, the anti-nuclear zealots put into senior Administration posts in the Department of Energy, Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, State and Defense Departments, Office of Science and Technology Policy and National Security Council saw to it that the United States would forego any further testing.

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The State Department said the U.S. wasn't advising Japan on whether to rely on nuclear energy in the future.

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