[dayglored]

How much of Japan’s total generating capacity do the downed nukes represent?

[Deathtomarxists]

Edgar Casey prophesized that Japan must fall into the sea. Their troubles are just beginning. It will get much worse despite their best efforts. They nuked themselves back to the stone age in a sense. Unable to make up the power loss, will they once again strike out against the world in search of energy?

[Gay State Conservative]

Unlike most civilized countries Japan just might have a legitimate reason to be wary of nuke plants today.Take Hiroshima and Nagasaki and add to that the earthquake and tsunami and you can at least begin to see why.Their move,it seems to me,is likely to adversely affect oil prices...unless they intend to build a *lot* of windmills.

Germany's recent position on nuke plants,OTOH,makes no sense at all.Just more Marxist BS from Euroweenies.But then Marx *was* a German.

[ontap]

Like anything else nuclear power is not without risks. But when one builds a nuclear plant where it is known to have tsunamis’ at regular intervals seems to be foolhardy to say the least.

[The Great RJ]

As I recall Japan has neither oil or natural gas resources and little coal so what are they going to do for power when the wind doesn’t blow and the sun doesn’t shine?

[DTA]

they can choose to be nuclear free but they have no say in being radiation free.GE and Toshiba sealed their fate.

And much the rest the fate of their neighbors.

Every day 400 tonnes of radioactive water is created in Fukushima. In comparison to Fukushima, Chernobyl was minor incident and Three Mile Island was non-event.