TOKYO (Reuters) – Prime Minister Naoto Kan said on Wednesday that Japan needs to fundamentally rethink how nuclear power is regulated but sidestepped the question of how big a role atomic energy would play in the country's future.
Japan is trying to contain a crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex after a magnitude 9.0 earthquake and tsunami on March 11 knocked out the plant's cooling systems, leading to radiation leaks.
"We need to fully consider what needs to be done to enhance the safety of nuclear power," Kan told a news conference.
Kan, under fire for his handling of the nuclear crisis, also said he would allow nuclear plants that are currently shut down for inspection to restart once they meet emergency safety standards.
(Reporting by Yoko Nishikawa, Shinichi Saoshiro, and Linda Sieg; Editing by Edmund Klamann and Joseph Radford)
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