 26 restart applications are now pending with an estimated 12 units to come back in service by 2025 and 18 by 2030.In 1954, the Operations Coordinating Board of the United States National Security Council proposed that the U.S. government undertake a "vigorous offensive" urging nuclear energy for Japan in order to overcome the widespread reluctance of the Japanese population to build nuclear reactors in the country.Thirty two million Japanese people, a third of the Japanese population, signed a petition calling for banning hydrogen bombs.