A country can preserve the drawings for a nuclear power plant, maintain its technical standards and store decades of operating records. It can keep the site licensed and the machinery…
In Japan, ships are so familiar that we barely notice them. Tankers enter our ports, container vessels cross the horizon, and cargo moves through Yokohama, Kobe, Nagoya and countless smaller…
The nuclear industry has no shortage of ambitious ideas right now. Companies are talking about smaller reactors, safer designs, faster construction, flexible operation, and power for everything from data centers…
A major U.S. retailer recently signed a long-term agreement to buy nuclear electricity from Constellation Energy’s Dresden Clean Energy Center in Illinois. The agreement covers about 176 megawatts of power…
When Japan released its latest energy plan, most of the headlines focused on a single number: nuclear power is expected to provide around 20% of the country’s electricity by 2040.…
For more than a decade after the Fukushima accident, Japan’s nuclear industry existed in a kind of limbo. Reactors were shut down, politicians spoke cautiously about reducing dependence on nuclear…
Lately, I’ve found myself thinking about a place I’ve never been—the Strait of Hormuz. On a map, it’s easy to miss, just a narrow stretch of water between Iran and…
Energy doesn’t usually feel urgent until it shows up somewhere you weren’t expecting. Over the past year, I’ve started to hear it more often in conversations with business leaders. Not…
On the way to Fukui, someone mentioned Eiheiji Temple, where monks train for years in near silence, repeating the same routines until the rhythm becomes familiar. The image stayed with…
A few months ago, I was speaking with a university student in Tokyo who had studied engineering. He understood energy systems well and was genuinely interested in infrastructure. But when…
