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Outcry as Sendai nuclear station is restarted

Sendai nuclear plant restarts amid outcry, Financial Times 11 Aug 

“…….Naoto Kan, the prime minister who led Japan during the 2011 tsunami and nuclear disaster, described the restart as a “huge mistake” by an industry in decline. “Nuclear power generation is a technology of the 20th century,” he said on Tuesday. “As a source of energy, it is inferior from the long-term point of view.”

Mr Kan was on Tuesday joined outside the Sendai plant, 1,000km from Tokyo on Japan’s southernmost island of Kyushu, by hundreds of protesters, chanting in anger as the reactor was restarted.

As a source of energy, it is inferior from the long-term point of view– Naoto Kan, former prime minister

The panic and mass evacuations that followed the Fukushima meltdown remain fresh in the public psyche in Japan. Since the disaster, all of Japan’s nuclear reactors have been shut down. When polled, some 57 per cent of the public say they are against any being restarted.

August 12, 2015 - Posted by | general

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