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Japan To Restart Nuclear Power Tomorrow After Energy Prices Soar
An anonymous reader writes: After the Fukushima meltdown, all of Japan's nuclear power plants were shut down, the last in late 2013. This week the government plans on starting up reactor No.1 at the Sendai nuclear power plant. Energy prices have risen 30% since 2011, and it is hoped that the plant will soon be producing a surplus of electricity. Not everyone is happy about the plant restarting. This weekend, about 2,000 protesters marched around the plant and voiced their opposition. "Past arguments that nuclear plants were safe and nuclear energy was cheap were all shown to be lies," said writer Satoshi Kamata, one of the demonstration organizers. "Kyushu Electric is not qualified to resume operations because it has not completed an anti-quake structure to oversee a possible accident as well as a venting facility."
Burn the protestors to generate electricity - at least let them do something useful!
with only 2 accidents of major note. In both instances we have learned what to look for
Whatever, man. Vermont Yankee's cooling tower collapsed because its owners were too stupid to realize that metal corrodes over time. Did they learn anything? No, they just started dumping the extra heat into the river, killing countless fish. Were any lessons learned here? Nope.