Wind power station planned in place of nuclear plant in Wakayama town (Japan)

[kristopher]

Wind power station planned in place of nuclear plant in Wakayama town


Huge wind power generators stand in the Aomori Prefecture village of Rokkasho with the nuclear fuel reprocessing plant in the background. (Mainichi)
WAKAYAMA -- A company partially financed by Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) is planning to build a wind power station in the Wakayama Prefecture town of Hidaka, which has abandoned plans to host a nuclear power plant, it has been learned.

The town is likely to accept the wind power project, with Mayor Yoshio Naka earlier having declared: "The age of nuclear power stations is over."

http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/national/archive/news/2012/01/31/20120131p2a00m0na005000c.html

[Nihil]

1. Shame they couldn't do it on a brownfield site but still a good move.

Fascinating reading about their work preparing for the expected powerful
earthquakes in the region ...

[madokie]

2. Nuclear energy for the most part is dead

its only a matter of time until the plants that dot the worlds landscapes time will run out and to me it can't happen anytime too soon.