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Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Another Fukushima Casualty - Japan's Fast Breeder Reactor Program

Another Fukushima Casualty - Japan's Fast Breeder Reactor Program

The 11 March 2011 earthquake and tsunami that effectively destroyed Tokyo Electric Power Company’s six-reactor Fukushima Daichi complex have claimed another victim, Japan’s fast breeder reactor program. Fukushima’s effect on Japan’s atomic energy program has not had the consequences of a nuclear blast, but more the relentless drip of acid rain, slowly eroding public confidence in the country’s nuclear power industry, which last month saw 49 of the country’s 54 nuclear power plant (NPP) reactors idled. The…Read more...

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