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1. Japan aims for zero nuclear power in 2030s - media

Wed Sep 12, 2012, 10:01 AM

Sep 2012

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/09/12/japan-nuclear-idUSL3E8KC2JY20120912

Japan aims for zero nuclear power in 2030s - media

TOKYO, Sept 12 | Wed Sep 12, 2012 3:24am EDT

(Reuters) - Japan aims to quit nuclear power in the 2030s in a new energy strategy to be unveiled soon, media said on Wednesday, a major shift from a pre-Fukushima disaster goal of boosting atomic energy to produce more than half the country's electricity.

The March 2011 earthquake and tsunami triggered three meltdowns at Tokyo Electric Power Co's Fukushima Daiichi plant, spewing radiation and forcing about 160,000 people to flee their homes.

It also prompted the government to scrap a 2010 plan to boost nuclear power's share of electricity to more than 50 percent by 2030.

Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda said on Monday that he wanted to decide on the new policy this week and would take into account a proposal by his Democratic Party for Japan to "invest all possible policy resources to make it possible to exit nuclear power in the 2030s".

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Japan aims for zero nuclear power in 2030s - media bananas Sep 2012 #1

Don't do it...And are you still going to fund ITER Japan? snooper2 Sep 2012 #2

They should abandon nuclear energy right now. bananas Sep 2012 #3

So they flip the off switch Right Now. Where's the missing 30% of output come from (also Right Now)? Posteritatis Sep 2012 #15

Renewables are the way of the future, neither fission nor fusion are needed at all bananas Sep 2012 #4

We already have a self-sustaining fusion reactor The Second Stone Sep 2012 #12

Thank God. Japan has dealt with more nuclear horror than any country in history. Kablooie Sep 2012 #5

All except for that glow in their north east sky, for the next thousand years or so,,,,,,, benld74 Sep 2012 #6

Nuclear is not the solution to Global Warming madokie Sep 2012 #7

Nat. gas conversions aren't a solution either NickB79 Sep 2012 #9

The fracking needs to stop madokie Sep 2012 #13

I understand the idea of using nat. gas as a bridge to renewables NickB79 Sep 2012 #14

What's that I smell? Oh, the sweet, sweet fumes of frack gas! NickB79 Sep 2012 #8

You'd think this was the Late Breaking Spews forum. Systematic Chaos Sep 2012 #10

Japan sees the light marions ghost Sep 2012 #11