Posted on 12/01/2014 5:25:07 AM PST by WhiskeyX
A huge majority of those planning to run in the Dec. 14 Lower House election on the ticket of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party or its junior coalition ally, Komeito, favor restarting the nations idled nuclear reactors, a Kyodo News poll showed Sunday.
A total of 90.7 percent of those eyeing a run on the LDP ticket and 79.4 percent of prospective Komeito candidates said they support the reboot of reactors, which generated around 30 percent of the countrys total electricity before the 2011 triple meltdown at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant. All of the nations 48 reactors are currently offline.
(Excerpt) Read more at japantimes.co.jp ...
IT WAS A STUPID POLITICAL DECISION TO SHUT DOWN THE POWER PLANTS.
In the U.S. we have a bunch of similar stupid politicians.
Reckless. Unless there's new furor or concern over the Japan nuclear crisis, it will be another 20 years before there's the will to address this problem (unless, of course, we have our own 'crisis', at which time there will be a similar call to 'shut down the dangerous plants' while ignoring decades of negligent infrastructure 'non-planning').
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