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Yo_Mama

(8,303 posts) Sun Jun 17, 2012, 01:50 AM Jun 2012

Noda Ends Japan Nuclear Freeze

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-06-16/japan-nuclear-freeze-ends-as-voter-backlash-begins-for-noda.html

Two reactors at Kansai Electric Power Co. (9503)’s Ohi nuclear plant can be operated safely, Noda declared after meeting with three Cabinet ministers who share approval authority. The utility, which serves the $1 trillion economy of Japan’s second- biggest urban region, said it would immediately begin work to start one reactor.

There's considerable detail in the article.

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Noda Ends Japan Nuclear Freeze (Original Post) Yo_Mama Jun 2012 OP

I don't know that Japan has much choice longship Jun 2012 #1

Japan has been investing in alternatives Art_from_Ark Jun 2012 #2

longship

(40,416 posts)

1. I don't know that Japan has much choice

Reply to Yo_Mama (Original post)

Sun Jun 17, 2012, 02:06 AM

Jun 2012

Either save power by shutting down part of their economic production, or start a couple of nukes. I don't think they have much choice. Startup the safest ones and put money into R&D into alternatives.

Art_from_Ark

(27,247 posts)

2. Japan has been investing in alternatives

Reply to longship (Reply #1)

Sun Jun 17, 2012, 04:05 AM

Jun 2012

For example, the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) has been working to develop alternative energy sources for years:

http://www.aist.go.jp/aist_e/aist_laboratories/4environment/index.html

Tokyo and other areas are subsidizing the purchase of solar collectors and panels:

http://kakaku.com/taiyoukou/subsidy/selectcity.aspx?th_pref=tokyo&cid=taiyoukou_g120240

And as of last year, there were 304 facilities in Japan for turning garbage into electricity:

http://www.pwmi.jp/plastics-recycle20091119/future/index.html

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