Japan to abandon new reactor plans

[Viva_La_Revolution]

Source: UPI

Japan's prime minister says the country will abandon plans to build new nuclear reactors and will "start from scratch" in creating a new energy policy.

Under a plan released by Prime Minister Naoto Kan's government last year, Japan was to build 14 more nuclear reactors by 2030 and increase the share of nuclear power in Japan's electricity supply to 50 percent.

"We need to start from scratch," Kan said. "We need to make nuclear energy safer and do more to promote renewable energy."



Read more: http://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2011/05/10/Japan-to-abandon-new-reactor-plans/UPI-52341305028973/

[FiveGoodMen]

1. Well, that's a step in the right direction.

Will the US be as smart?

[defendandprotect]

2. Now all we need is for Obama to wake up -- !!! Meanwhile, Japan has sun and wind -- !!

[RC]

3. And lots of people and little land.

[defendandprotect]

4. Well, unless they want to be "moved" completely off the map, time to let nukes go--!!

[damntexdem]

6. Were they to continue developing nukes, the lots of people might no longer be an issue.

But the habitable land would likely be much less.

[damntexdem]

5. Good luck. But I wonder whether Japan will survive to undertake a new approach.

It may have already killed its prospects, and many of its people, with the nuclear-future fantasy.

[Gregorian]

7. Humans only change after faced with a crisis.

It always amazes me how slow people are to react. Global warming, and there's still people traipsing around the planet on jets, driving everywhere. And criticizing people for even pointing it out.

We're faced with problems right now that cannot tolerate a slow reaction. I'm wasting my breath...


Here's an example from just ten minutes ago. I just saw someone I know who drives to go on a bike ride. Every day he goes past my property in his car. He lives 25 miles from here. So that's a fifty mile car drive just to go on a bike ride. It's none of my god damned business what he does. So I just watch, and think how fucked we are as a planet. Call me nuts. I'm just an observer.

[ladjf]

8. Better late than never. I doubt that the U.S. has learned anything

from the Japanese problem. nt

[defendandprotect]

9. k