Japan Shuts Down Last Nuclear Reactor Voice of America May 05, 2012 Japan Shuts Down Last Nuclear Reactor Miguel Quintana | Tokyo Nearly 14 months after a powerful earthquake and tsunami triggered the most severe nuclear accident since Chernobyl, Japan is shutting down the last of its nuclear reactors. | ||
Japan without nuclear power for first time in 42 years Fox News 3, are seen at the Tomari Nuclear Power Plant, operated by Hokkaido Electric Power Co., in Tomari in Japan's northernmost main island of Hokkaido.AP TOKYO – Thousands of Japanese marched to celebrate the switching off of the last of their nation's 50 ... | ||
Last Reactor of 50 in Japan Is Shut Down New York Times TOKYO — Japan's last operating reactor was taken offline Saturday, as public distrust created by last year's nuclear disaster forced the nation to at least temporarily do without atomic power for the first time in 42 years. The reactor, at the Tomari ... | ||
Japan nuclear power-free as last reactor shuts Reuters TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese utility Hokkaido Electric Power Co began shutting the country's last active nuclear reactor on Saturday, leaving the world's third-biggest user of atomic energy with no nuclear-derived electricity for the first time since ... | ||
Japan Nuclear Reactors Shut Off, Thousands March To Celebrate Huffington Post Japan will be without electricity from nuclear power for the first time in four decades when the reactor at Tomari nuclear plant on the northern island of Hokkaido goes offline for routine maintenance. After last year's March 11 quake and tsunami set ... | ||
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Japan's final nuclear reactor switches off NECN TOKYO (AP) — For the first time in four decades, Japan is without electricity from nuclear power. The last of the country's 50 nuclear reactors has been shut down for what's described as mandatory routine maintenance. But since last year's earthquake ... | ||
Japan's last operating reactor to go offline MarketWatch By Tatsuo Ito TOKYO (MarketWatch) -- Japan's last operating nuclear reactor was set to go offline Saturday evening for regular maintenance, leaving the country without nuclear power for the first time in more than four decades. | ||
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Japan Shuts Down Last Nuclear Reactor
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