Mr. Kan said that as a young politician, he believed atomic power was only a transitional energy source.
One of the simplest ways for investors to tap into atomic power growth is through exchange traded funds.
After the Fukushima Daiichi meltdown, the country has imported more LNG to offset the loss in atomic power generation.
Only about 20% of the country's electricity is created by atomic power plants.
Meanwhile, Japan Atomic Power shut down the 1, 100-megawatt Tokai Daini nuclear plant on the north-east coast, the closest to Tokyo.
Regardless of the success or failure of these ambitious anti-nuclear energy agendas, the age of atomic power is anything but over.
Based on a report compiled by the panel, the nuclear watchdog could conclude that unit No. 2 of Japan Atomic Power Co.
America's Atomic Energy Commission asked Mr Kneese for his comments on the possible economic effects of atomic power generation on the environment.
The share price was clobbered in the aftermath of the March nuclear disaster in Japan which led to countries such as Germany declaring a moratorium on new atomic power plants.
It was announced a day after the second anniversary of the Fukushima earthquake, tsunami and nuclear crisis that crippled the country's atomic power industry and exposed its lack of domestic energy sources.
After acquiring British pipeline products company Wellstream Monday, and announcing a deal to supply generators for oil and gas fields to Saudi Aramco Tuesday, the conglomerate's nuclear energy joint venture is looking to secure atomic power contracts with Saudi Arabia's government.
As Iran edges towards achieving the nuclear fuel cycle that would let it become, after Israel, the Middle East's second atomic power, so the consequences of that ambition, in the form of UN sanctions and the growing isolation of Iranian banks and businesses, are being felt across the economy.
Meanwhile, the weaker yen means higher costs for rising imports of natural gas, which is priced in dollar terms, to help compensate for the loss of nuclear power generation capacity after most atomic power plants remain closed after the 2011 disaster at the Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear plant in northeastern Japan.
The acceleration of talks comes less than a month after Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe signed atomic-power treaties with Turkey and the United Arab Emirates, the first such move since the Fukushima disaster.
With its sales in the atomic-power sector falling by a third since the Fukushima accident, India "would be a major focus of business if regulatory clearance is given by the government, " a spokesman said.
The International Atomic Energy Agency predicts nuclear-power production will rise between 35% and 100% over the next 20 years.
Tokyo radiation levels are not hazardous to human health at this time following radiation leaks at the Fukushima nuclear power plant, the International Atomic Energy Chief Yukiya Amano told reporters Wednesday.
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Tehran insists its nuclear program is for electric power, but the International Atomic Energy Agency reported recently that the Iranian government is still not letting them see certain parts of their operations.
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Tehran denies it is seeking atomic weapons and is only developing civilian nuclear power.
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U.S. and United Nations officials have documented what they describe as serious limitations in Iran's ability to quickly and efficiently produce the enriched uranium required to either fuel a nuclear power reactor or to build an atomic weapon.
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Tehran denies it is seeking atomic weapons and says it is only developing civilian nuclear power.
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He wanted the first atomic bomb to be exploded high above Tokyo where its power would be demonstrated.
Iran said it has found significant new deposits of raw uranium to feed its nuclear program and has identified sites for 16 more nuclear power stations, just days before talks with Western powers over its disputed atomic program.
He is charged with 59 counts under the Atomic Energy and Espionage Acts but has not been charged with passing secrets to a foreign power.
The so-called stress tests will be performed on Europe's 143 working reactors and other atomic installations and will consider a range of factors, including seismic activity, flooding, and power loss at reactors.
Recalling an era when the word "atomic" conjured modernity and mystery, the Smithsonian-run Atomic Testing Museum remains an intriguing testament to the period when the fantastical - and destructive - power of nuclear energy was tested just outside of Las Vegas.
Over the past three months, Iran has more than tripled its monthly output of uranium that has been enriched to a fissile concentration of 20% at Natanz and Fordow, according to the IAEA. Such nuclear fuel, compared with the 3.5% used in most nuclear-power reactors, brings Iran dangerously close to the weapons-grade level needed to make atomic weapons, according to nuclear experts.
In real time, the International Atomic Energy Agency has been updating a terrified international audience about the situation at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant.
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Russia's nuclear power equipment and service export monopoly, Atomstroiexport, is building the plant under supervision of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the United Nations' nuclear watchdog agency.
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