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If Japan can get through summer without nuclear reactors, perhaps it won’t need them – ever!

Japan fears non-nuclear summer will hamper restarts

* Japan PM, ministers discuss reactor restarts, to meet again today

Daily Times, 6 April 12, TOKYO: Japan’s government is rushing to try to restart two nuclear reactors, idled after the Fukushima crisis, by next month out of what experts say is a fear that surviving a total shutdown would make it hard to convince the public that atomic energy is vital.

Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda and three cabinet ministers are to meet for a third time on Friday to discuss the possible restarts of the No. 3 and No. 4 reactors at Kansai Electric Power Co’s Ohi plant in Fukui, western Japan – a region dubbed the “nuclear arcade” for the string of atomic plants that dot its coast. …http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2012%5C04%5C06%5Cstory_6-4-2012_pg4_5

April 7, 2012 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | general