I live not far from Fukushima (though I moved here about a decade after the disaster) and I agree. We have a huge affordability crisis going on with inflation/stagflation. Taking the nuclear plants offline caused reliance on fossil fuels, a lot of which were imported (including from Russia) and all that new cost had to be borne by someone which of course ended up being the consumers.

In an ideal world, we'd have more renewables and storage, but we're not there yet. Being mostly mountainous, at the boundary of 3 tectonic plates, and having plenty of natural disasters also doesn't help.

tbf, a nuclear power plant in a tsunami prone region is a bad idea.

I think nuclear energy is the way to go. at least use it to get rid of fossil fuel dependency, then we can continue to expand other renewables.

doing this is just calling for another Godzilla attack.