Japan's Last Nuclear Reactor Shuts Down

AmiMoJo writes "Japan's last active reactor is shutting down today, leaving the country without nuclear energy for the first time since 1970. All 50 commercial reactors in the country are now offline. 19 have completed stress tests but there is little prospect of them being restarted due to heavy opposition from local governments. Meanwhile activists in Tokyo celebrated the shutdown and asked the government to admit that nuclear power was no longer needed in Japan and to concentrate on safety. If this summer turns out to be as hot as 2010 some areas could be asked to make 15% power savings to avoid shortages, while other areas will be unaffected due to savings already made."

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What do you expect

[p51d007]

From a country that thought ramming airplanes into ships might win a war. ldiots! This summer when it is impossible to run your AC to keep cool because of rolling brown outs, and next winter when it is too cold to run your furnace, remember back to this day. Bunch of nearsighted clowns running that country, caving into the political correctness nutjobs.

Re:Save Face, not Environment

[Anonymous Coward]

> BTW, at least one of these errors is being made practically everywhere in the world: stopping research into new, possibly safer reactor designs because of the public's knee-jerk fear of technology.

Why does it have to be nuclear? Why are you so intent on using nuclear, even if better options exist, and on qualifying those who don't follow your advice as anti-something or conspiracy paranoids? Isn't it possible for you to be wrong? Could it not be that after 4 major nuclear accidents everybody's perception that nukes cannot be trusted is right?

Who's the ostrich now?

BTW, it's the same thing about climate change: first it does not exist, then it's just natural, then it exists but maybe it's even helpful... and 20 years later it's a national threat...

Do you want to sit on a pile of sand, with just cockroaches for company saying "ok, I suppose I might be wrong now and then"? Just what for? To show nature/God/mankind you don't care?

Well, that was pretty clear from day one, son.

Re:Save Face, not Environment

[ClioCJS]

And how often does that happen? A dam breaking, killing a few hundred thousand? Are there any examples in history? Chernobyl death toll is estimated at 1M by some. After Hiroshima, the cancers weren't measurable at a higher level for 20 years. So we'll not know the true toll of Fukishima ever, and certainly not any time in the next 10 years.