Japan To Be Without Nuclear Power After May 5

mdsolar writes in with a Reuters article about the continued fallout of Fukushima on the nuclear industry in Japan. "Japan will within weeks have no nuclear power for the first time in more than 40 years, after the trade minister said two reactors idled after the Fukushima disaster would not be back online before the last one currently operating is shut down. Trade Minister Yukio Edano signaled it would take at least several weeks before the government, keen to avoid a power crunch, can give a final go-ahead to restarts, meaning Japan is set on May 6 to mark its first nuclear power-free day since 1970. 'If we thoroughly go through the procedure, it would be (on or) after May 6 even if we could restart them,' Edano told a news conference, adding that whether they can actually be brought back online is still up to ongoing discussions. The crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, where a huge earthquake and tsunami in March 2011 triggered radiation leaks, has hammered public faith in nuclear power and prevented the restart of reactors shut down for regular maintenance checks, with all but one of 54 reactors now offline."

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Re:Why I'm not moving next to Fukushima.

[Geezle2]

and the services in the area suck at the moment

Gee, I wonder why that is? Could it be those "tiny amounts of radiation" that leaked and caused all the folks who used to provide services to go and live in school gymnasiums in the next prefecture over?

The nuclear power industry just took a mammoth dump all over the Japanese people's beloved countryside. They are in no mood to "suck it up." Nuclear power is dead in Japan. YOU suck it up.