I think there are three major reasons why japan is doing this: - technological. There are new, safety-focused designs that japan is going to relaunch their nu

I think there are three major reasons why japan is doing this: - technological. There are new, safety-focused designs that japan is going to relaunch their nuclear program with. They're enough to satisfy the japanese regulators - geopolitical. Don't want to rely on russian fuel sources, don't want to fight against china for the end of a very long supply chain to get middle east petro. - crony. Honda and toyota made long term plans to ignore EV in favor of hydrogen, hydrogen battery economy is basically nonsensical unless you have nuclear power plants churning out the stuff as demand bleedoff.