By PATRICK MCGROARTY and VANESSA FUHRMANS | The Wall Street Journal | Link to article BERLIN—Germany on Monday said it would close all of its 17 nuclear reactors by 2022, a sharp policy reversal that will make it the first major economy to quit atomic power in the wake of the nuclear crisis in Japan. […]
Archives for May 2011
Fukushima Revives The Low-Dose Debate
May 20, 2011
By Dennis Normile | Science (sciencemag.org) | Link to article The general public avoided exposure to high levels of radioactivity, but questions linger about the long-term effects of contamination. FUKUSHIMA, JAPAN—At 5 p.m. sharp, Mitsuru Itou watches as a technician steps inside a quartet of orange traffic cones and black-and-yellow traffic bars marking a “keep […]
Tokyo Retreats From Its Nuclear Ambitions
May 10, 2011
By MITSURU OBE AND MARI IWATA | The Wall Street Journal | Link to article TOKYO—Prime Minister Naoto Kan said Japan should start over in forming a long-term energy policy, dropping plans to get half its energy needs from nuclear power and instead turning to renewable sources. “The existing energy-policy outline needs to be scrapped, […]
Japan to Cancel Plan to Build More Nuclear Plants
May 10, 2011
By MARTIN FACKLER | The New York Times | Link to article TOKYO — Prime Minister Naoto Kan said Tuesday that Japan would abandon plans to build more nuclear reactors, saying his country needed to “start from scratch” in creating a new energy policy. Mr. Kan’s announcement came as Japan allowed residents of evacuated areas […]
Japanese plant in harm’s way will suspend nuclear power production
May 9, 2011
By By John M. Glionna and Kenji Hall | Los Angeles Times | Link to article The Chubu company’s Hamaoka facility is considered vulnerable in case of a strong earthquake and tsunami. Reporting from Tokyo-A Japanese utility agreed Monday to take its reactors offline at a seaside nuclear power plant, just days after Prime Minister […]
