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Japan may only be able to restart one-third of its nuclear reactors

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(Note how renewables goes DOWN after 2011 – Arclight)
“Given the current unwillingness of the government to have stronger support for nuclear power they have to be prepared for the future replacement,” said Tatsujiro Suzuki, a vice chairman of the Japan Atomic Energy Commision, who is stepping down on Monday. https://nuclear-news.net/2014/03/31/japan-to-add-11000-mw-of-fossil-fuels-thinking-about-renewables-for-2050-maybe/
Reuters — Apr 02

 http://newsonjapan.com/html/newsdesk/article/107102.php

Three years after the Fukushima disaster prompted the closure of all Japan’s nuclear reactors, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is moving to revive nuclear power as a core part of the energy mix, but many of those idled reactors will never come back online.

Fewer than a third, and at most about two-thirds, of the reactors will pass today’s more stringent safety checks and clear the other seismological, economic, logistical and political hurdles needed to restart, a Reuters analysis shows.This means Japan is likely to remain heavily reliant on imported fuel to power the world’s third-largest economy, straining a trade balance that has been in the red for nearly two years. Electric utilities will face huge liabilities to decommission reactors and pay for fossil fuels.Hokkaido Electric Power Co, facing a third year of financial losses, is seeking a capital infusion from a state-owned lender, which would make it the second utility, after Fukushima operator Tokyo Electric Power Co, to get a government bailout since the March 2011 disaster.Continuing indefinitely to burn more coal and gas also means Tokyo will find it much harder to meet targets for reducing greenhouse-gas emissions.

 

http://smc-japan.org/eng/

The above link will take you to the Japanese Media Center website that was abandoned in 2012. However I happen to know that the Japanese Science Media Center is still operating and giving the media some good climate change advice. –  🙂

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April 2, 2014 - Posted by | Uncategorized

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