The Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power station in Niigata, Japan is the world’s largest nuclear energy producer, with an output of roughly 8,000 megawatts. (YUICHI YAMAZAKI / AFP / Getty Images)About the author: Ben Cahill is Director for Energy Markets and Policy at the Center for Energy and Environmental Systems Analysis, University of Texas at Austin.
What Japan Can Teach Us About Energy Security
The resource-poor island has to be strategic about its energy production and consumption, Ben Cahill writes in a guest commentary.






