Japan to shut down its last nuclear reactor
The
No. 3 reactor at the Tomari nuclear plant, on the northern island of
Hokkaido, will be shut down for a regular safety inspection, the
operator said.
The national government has warned that major
cities, including Tokyo and Osaka, face blackouts during the months of
peak energy demand – in Japan's notoriously hot and muggy summer –
unless local authorities grant permission for utilities to restart the
54 reactors.
Nuclear power previously provided fully one-third of Japan's energy.
But
public opinion has turned fiercely against nuclear power since the
Great East Japan Earthquake and the massive tsunami that it triggered
which destroyed the Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear plant, 150 miles
north-east of Tokyo.
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