Following the catastrophic failure of the Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant in Japan that resulted from the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami , and the subsequent widespread public opposition against nuclear power , high energy , lower emission ( HELE ) coal power plants were increasingly favored by the Shinzō Abe-led government to recoup lost energy capacity from the partial shutdown of nuclear power plants in Japan and to replace aging coal and oil-fired power plants , while meeting 2030 emission targets of the Paris Agreement . 45 HELE power plants have been planned , purportedly to employ integrated gasification fuel cell cycle , a further development of integrated gasification combined cycle
2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami
2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami
Coal pollution mitigation