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Commentary: Can Japan learn to love nuclear power again after Fukushima?
Channel News Asia ^ | 27 Aug 2022 | Gearoid Reidy

Posted on 08/27/2022 9:40:55 PM PDT by nickcarraway

Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s government is backing the construction of new reactors for the first time since the Fukushima disaster in 2011. It will have to convince a skeptical public first, says Bloomberg Opinion’s Gearoid Reidy.

Just over a decade on from Fukushima, the northern Japanese region that became globally synonymous with the dangers of nuclear power, Tokyo seems ready to embrace atomic energy once more.

Prime Minister Fumio Kishida is set to push not just for the restart of operations including Tokyo Electric Power Co’s Kashiwazaki-Kariwa, the largest nuclear power facility in the world — he’s also looking to reverse a decade of policy and mull the building of new nuclear plants. The country will also consider extending the lifespan of existing reactors beyond the current 60 years.

This has been coming: After scares earlier this year, Japan is facing another winter where electricity demand is expected to be right up against supply. The reality is dawning that it can’t oppose Russian energy, climate change and nuclear power all at once.

(Excerpt) Read more at channelnewsasia.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Foreign Affairs; Japan; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: electricity; fukishima; japan; nuclear
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1 posted on 08/27/2022 9:40:55 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

Can the US learn to love nuclear power again after Three Mile Island?


2 posted on 08/27/2022 9:42:39 PM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: nickcarraway

Just build it above the Line of Sorrow.


3 posted on 08/27/2022 9:42:43 PM PDT by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's for sure.)
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To: lightman
Jane Fonda did her job well in The China Syndrome.
4 posted on 08/27/2022 10:06:51 PM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: nickcarraway

does Godzilla love stomping trains?


5 posted on 08/27/2022 10:07:26 PM PDT by mylife (And I would have gotten away with it too, if it weren't for you meddling kids...)
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To: lightman
Can the US learn to love nuclear power again after Three Mile Island?

Yeah, it's really a shame about all the people who died at 3 Mile Island.

6 posted on 08/27/2022 10:12:11 PM PDT by chaosagent (Remember, no matter how you slice it, forbidden fruit still tastes the sweetest!)
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To: nickcarraway

Boiling water nuclear power is insanity. If you can’t flip an off switch and walk away from something within a few hours without having it blowup and contaminate everything for 100,000 years. That is what I call insanity. Not to mention the nuclear waste.


7 posted on 08/27/2022 10:15:34 PM PDT by Revel
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To: Revel

There are several new designs that meet those criteria.
There are even some that act as “Burners” to safely dispose of waste from the old type plants.
New nuclear plants in the US are inevitable, the question becomes will they be adopted in time to prevent our becoming a third world county first?


8 posted on 08/27/2022 10:39:06 PM PDT by Ex gun maker. (Free thinking is now a radical concept, I will not be assimilated by PC or EV groupthink!)
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To: Ex gun maker.

Country.


9 posted on 08/27/2022 10:44:51 PM PDT by Ex gun maker. (Free thinking is now a radical concept, I will not be assimilated by PC or EV groupthink!)
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To: Ex gun maker.

Yeah, the US third-world counties are what they used to rig the 2020 “election”.


10 posted on 08/27/2022 10:54:38 PM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: nickcarraway

Can’t let a couple coincidences lining up ruin nuclear power for the whole country. Earthquake causing a tsunami at high tide, swamping and clogging the outlets for the water cooling system. It wasn’t operator error, but the plant should have been shut down. Better off spending the time and money getting it back online than risk keeping it operating.


11 posted on 08/27/2022 11:03:34 PM PDT by wastedyears (The left would kill every single one of us and our families if they knew they could get away with it)
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Bookmark


12 posted on 08/27/2022 11:05:49 PM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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To: mylife

That’s my concern. I thought that big lizard got upset every time the Japs started going nuclear?


13 posted on 08/27/2022 11:11:53 PM PDT by jmacusa (Liberals. Too stupid to be idiots. )
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To: lightman

“Can the US learn to love nuclear power again after Three Mile Island?”

More people have died installing solar panels than from nuclear power accidents.

The mortality rate from solar is 10 times that of nuclear.

https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2008/03/deaths-per-twh-for-all-energy-sources.html


14 posted on 08/27/2022 11:15:05 PM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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To: mylife

He’s here;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfVCZyeVfbo&t=1s


15 posted on 08/27/2022 11:27:33 PM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult
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To: lightman

Very good. That one came close to a Chernoble level event.


16 posted on 08/27/2022 11:50:54 PM PDT by robowombat (Orth,He looks like the sex all y )
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To: nickcarraway

I’ll confess this here...
About 10 years ago, I developed a habit of watching the news from Tokyo at lunch (probably the late night news for them). They had a fifteen minute segment on Fukashima.
So I thought “Jesus Jones! When did that happen? It must have been ten years ago, and what, some folks got their basements damp?” Then I looked it up...
Nah, it was the third anniversary and 2,000+ dead.
So Japanese news isn’t high on my list of interests.


17 posted on 08/28/2022 12:00:51 AM PDT by End Times Sentinel (In the conflict between the stone and the stream, the stream will always prevail.)
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Commentary: Can Japan learn to love nuclear power again after Fukushima?

Well, they learned to love it after Hiroshima and Nagasaki!

Regards,

18 posted on 08/28/2022 12:01:53 AM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: chaosagent
Yeah, it's really a shame about all the people who died at 3 Mile Island.

I can't remember for sure, it may have been Dennis Prager, but I don't know that, and this person, who's done extensive public speaking, and asked people how many folks died from 3 Mile Island, and on average the consensus was 3,000 people.

Amazing.

19 posted on 08/28/2022 12:05:29 AM PDT by End Times Sentinel (In the conflict between the stone and the stream, the stream will always prevail.)
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To: nickcarraway

Yes. Especially when they see how bad things are over in Europe as a result of foolishly making massive sacrifices to Gaia.


20 posted on 08/28/2022 12:26:54 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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