LDP lawmakers regroup to promote nuclear power

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LDP lawmakers regroup to promote nuclear power
2011/05/06

Lawmakers in the opposition Liberal Democratic Party established a task force to counter growing criticism against nuclear power generation, an industry that long supported the party when it ran the government.

The stated objective of Energy Seisaku Godo Kaigi (Joint council on energy policies) is to consider measures to balance supply and demand of electricity and to reconstruct energy strategies.

However, an LDP executive said bluntly, "We made the new group to protect nuclear power generation."

The ongoing crisis at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant has led to huge anti-nuclear protests around Japan and prompted the ruling Democratic Party of Japan to rethink its energy policy, which includes the construction of more reactors.

The LDP task force was the result ...

http://www.asahi.com/english/TKY201105050089.html

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1. Shareholders call for nuclear plant closures

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Mon May-02-11

Shareholders call for nuclear plant closures
Source: NHK

Some of the shareholders of a Japanese electric power company say they want the utility to close its nuclear power plants.

On Monday, a group of 232 individual stockholders of Tohoku Electric Power Company submitted the documents needed for their proposal to scrap its nuclear power plants.

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The group is also calling for the company to end its investment in spent nuclear fuel reprocessing businesses, including a reprocessing plant at Rokkasho Village in Aomori Prefecture.

The group representative, Hironori Shinohara, noted the moves by power companies to introduce additional safety measures following the nuclear emergency involving Tokyo Electric Power Company. But he said accidents never happen under the same scenarios, and stressed the importance of shutting down the nuclear plants.

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Read more: http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/02_31.html