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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