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Majority of Japanese want nuclear power to finish

Japanese support PM’s call to do away with nuclear power: poll, Jul 24, 2011, (Reuters) – More than two-thirds of Japanese support Prime Minister Naoto Kan’s call to do away with nuclear power, a media poll showed on Sunday, underscoring growing opposition to atomic energy in the wake of the crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi plant

The Fukushima complex is still leaking radiation four months after the disaster and the public is growing increasingly anxious about the safety of other plants across quake-prone Japan.

A poll conducted this weekend by Kyodo news agency showed 70.3 percent support for Kan’s call to wean the county off atomic energy, which accounted for nearly a third of the country’s electricity output before the crisis.

Japanese utilities are operating 17 of the 54 reactors that had been available before the March 11 earthquake. All of those could be shut down by next May for maintenance if public worries over safety continue to stall reactor restarts.

In a development that could add to those worries, Kyodo separately reported that a report by researchers showed a reactor unit at Kyushu Electric Power’s Genkai plant in southwestern Japan may have a faulty pressure vessel……http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/24/us-japan-nuclear-support-idUSTRE76N0RU20110724

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July 24, 2011 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Japan, politics