Nuclear panel head favors continued reactor operations

Nuclear panel head favors continued reactor operations

TOKYO, Japan - President Itaru Yasui (C) of the National Institute of Technology and Evaluation speaks in favor of maintaining nuclear power generation in a mid-term review of nuclear policy at a meeting of a panel he heads under the Advisory Committee for Natural Resources at the Economy, Trade and Industry Ministry in Tokyo on Dec. 24, 2014. (Kyodo)

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