Japan adopts plan to make maximum use of nuclear power
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Japan adopts plan to make maximum use of nuclear power
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#2What could possibly go wrong?
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#3As a German this is quite bizzare to me. Here, our politicians take Fukushima as an example why we should stop nuclear energy. People are scared of nuclear energy.
And now Japan goes max nuclear.
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#4As the link is cookie-walled for EU:
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#5>Japan will also change the rule that limits the operating life of reactors basically to 40 years but tolerates an extension to up to 60 years upon regulatory approval.
>Under the plan, Japan will allow power companies to operate reactors beyond the 60-year limit by excluding periods when reactors are halted for safety inspections or other reasons.
In short, instead of running more modern, more safe nuclear power plants, the plan is to extend the life of dangerous old designs.
Horror.
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#6As a German this is quite bizzare to me. Here, our politicians take Fukushima as an example why we should stop nuclear energy. People are scared of nuclear energy. And now Japan goes max nuclear.
Russian trolls I would say.
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#7As a German this is quite bizzare to me. Here, our politicians take Fukushima as an example why we should stop nuclear energy. People are scared of nuclear energy. And now Japan goes max nuclear.
The fear of tsunamis hitting nuclear plants in Germany seems remote.
How do Germans feel about all those nuclear power plants next door in France?
Does anyone have any fear of the health effects of burning coal decade after decade?
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#8As a German this is quite bizzare to me. Here, our politicians take Fukushima as an example why we should stop nuclear energy. People are scared of nuclear energy. And now Japan goes max nuclear.
Maybe both the German and the Japanese approaches to nuclear are both wrong except in opposite ways.
The Germans can afford to be needlessly picky about nuclear in their own country since if they have an electricity shortage they can simply buy the deficit from the European grid or they can kill themselves slowly by burning their lignite reserves, the nastiest, dirtiest type coal in existence.
Japan, being an isolated island nation that's poor in natural resources, doesn't have this luxury so they're YOLOing it on old nuclear plants.
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#9>Japan will also change the rule that limits the operating life of reactors basically to 40 years but tolerates an extension to up to 60 years upon regulatory approval. >Under the plan, Japan will allow power companies to operate reactors beyond the 60-year limit by excluding periods when reactors are halted for safety inspections or other reasons. In short, instead of running more modern, more safe nuclear power pla…
It's not "instead of". The sentence before your quote says they're building next generation reactors.
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#10As a German this is quite bizzare to me. Here, our politicians take Fukushima as an example why we should stop nuclear energy. People are scared of nuclear energy. And now Japan goes max nuclear.
My guess is that it's because the Japanese are so much used natural disasters such as typhoons, floods, landslides, volcano eruptions, earthquakes and tsunamis, a nuclear meltdown is the last thing of their worries.