The nuclear power is predicted to continue to grow globally regardless of the stop to the use in several countries post-Fukushima. Almost 69 nuclear power reactors currently under construction around the world where power demand continues to rise especially in hydrocarbon-poor Asia.

Japan in the 1960s was the first to adopt nuclear power among Asian nations. Nuclear capacity in Asia rose nearly 250 percent between 1980 and 2012, led mainly by South Korea, Japan, and India, with China during the last decade also adopting nuclear power.
The trend is expected to continue. According to the United States Energy Information Agency (EIA), nuclear power is among the world’s fastest-growing energy source, increasing by 2.5 percent every year.

While the U.S. has not put a halt to its nuclear power generation program, Fukushima officials are concerned about the clean up and the impact to the nuclear power industry.

Immediately after visiting the plant, U.S. Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz said in a statement, “The United States stands ready continuing helping Japan as they continue to charting the cleanup and works to settle the future of their energy economy.” The United States and Japan created the Bilateral Commission to strengthen our strategic and practical engagement on civil nuclear R&D.

A group of sailor who were onboard the aircraft carrier Ronald Reagan as it delivered aid in the results of the Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster in Japan nearly three years ago are taking another shot at a lawsuit over the health issues they say they have suffered since their radiation exposure.

Their lawyer, California environmental law expert Paul C. Garner, has until January 6 to change their complaint against the Tokyo Electric Power Co. and resubmit it for a judge’s ruling.

“What we say is this: The TEPCO people realized what was happening there,” Garner told Navy Times. “They knew the degree of what was happening, because now you have radiological releases into the environment ... and the tsunami just cleaned it all in, and washed it all-out, and the Reagan was in the backwash.”

Garner originally presented the case a year ago. A federal judge in Southern California granted the company’s November 26 motion to disregard the case, but Garner and the sailors will have another opportunity, he told Navy Times.

Garner made the decision to drop some of the accusations in the lawsuit, with a conspiracy charge, and said the judge would reevaluate the case in the New Year.