Crisis likely spells end for nuclear plant pursuit, Kan tells U.K. paper

[kristopher]

Crisis likely spells end for nuclear plant pursuit, Kan tells U.K. paper

Kyodo, Bloomberg
Wednesday, May 25, 2011

The Fukushima nuclear crisis has made it difficult to build new atomic plants in Japan, Prime Minister Naoto Kan suggested in an interview with the Financial Times, citing the experience of the United States after the 1979 Three Mile Island accident.

Kan was quoted Tuesday by a government official as telling the British newspaper that Japan will depend less on nuclear energy and focus more on natural energy and energy-saving efforts in light of the ongoing crisis at the Fukushima No. 1 complex.

Kan referred to the Three Mile Island case, after which no new nuclear power plants have been built in the United States.

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http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20110525x3.html

[jpak]

1. K&R

yup

[damntexdem]

2. Should make it impossible to build nuke plants ANYWHERE in the world.

But not in the U.S., with our MSM lack of reporting on nuclear issues.

[madokie]

3. I think there is enough of us paying attention even though the msm isn't reporting on it

that we'll do what we did to stop PSO from building blackfox nuclear power plant here in Oklahoma years ago. As I look back on it I see that victory against nuclear energy as a turning point in the building of more nuclear plants here.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Fox_Nuclear_Power_Plant

Think what you will about Oklahomans but we don't put up with much bullshit with nuclear power being nothing but an accident waiting to happen.

Kerr-McGee had a reprocessing plant near Gore Oklahoma and we shut them down too.

http://digital.library.okstate.edu/encyclopedia/entries/N/NU001.html

[kristopher]

4. I agree.

The entire thrust of the nuclear shills is to prevent public disapproval for the use nuclear power from coalescing into actual activism directed at opposition.

It is time to organize.

[madokie]

5. Yup

[bananas]

7. k&r nt

[kristopher]

6. After Fukushima, nuclear energy opens rift in G8

ANALYSIS: After Fukushima, nuclear energy opens rift in G8

By Takehiko Kambayashi and Jean-Baptiste Piggin May 25, 2011, 9:28 GMT

Tokyo Berlin - The Fukushima nuclear disaster has opened a rift in the Group of Eight (G8), with three of its members losing faith in nuclear's promise of almost limitless clean energy.

Meeting this week in Deauville, France, G8 leaders intend to show solidarity with Japan as it picks up the pieces after the radioactive releases triggered by the March 11 tsunami. They also want to discuss tougher international safety standards for nuclear power.

With many Japanese convinced that nuclear stations pose an enormous risk in a quake-prone country, the country's electorate is unlikely to accept construction of any more nuclear plants in future.

Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan has already said his country will fully review its energy policy, which had aimed to boost the fraction of electricity produced with atomic energy to 50 per cent and that of renewable energy sources to 20 per cent by 2030.

At the G8 meeting...

http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/europe/features/article_1641363.php/ANALYSIS-After-Fukushima-nuclear-energy-opens-rift-in-G8