Breaking Up The Nuclear Family
Al Jazeera2012-06-13: In the wake of last year’s devastating nuclear catastrophe at Fukushima, both Japan and Germany – the third and fourth largest economies in the world – have radically turned away from nuclear power generation to meet their energy needs. In Japan, still reeling from the impact of multiple meltdowns, all of the country’s commercial reactors are now idle. Although Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda is appealing for public support to restart at least some of plants – most immediately two reactors at the O’hi nuclear plant in western Japan – many Japanese remain rightly sceptical of their government’s ability to adequately… more »
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