Sunday, September 16, 2012

Focus: Hope anxiety swirl around Japan's energy policy shift

FOCUS: Hope anxiety swirl around Japan's energy policy shift


FOCUS: Hope, anxiety swirl around Japan's energy policy shift
Power Engineering Magazine
Sponsored by FLSmidth. 09/16/2012. About one and a half years after the start of the Fukushima nuclear crisis, Japan's energy policy has reached a turning point, with the government vowing to work toward ending nuclear power generation in the 2030s.http://www.power-eng.com/news/2012/09/16/focus-hope-anxiety-swirl-around-japan-s-energy-policy-shift.html

Noda's nuclear phase-out is not final word

Financial Times -
What Japan needs, says Yoshihiko Noda, its prime minister, is “decisive politics that makes the necessary decisions without delays and procrastination”. So Mr Noda may have been a little embarrassed by the repeated delays and procrastination that marked ...

Japan counts the cost of nuclear withdrawal

Financial Times -
Japan's decision to phase out nuclear power by the 2030s has left some of its biggest technology companies facing an awkward question: how do you sell a product that your own government has effectively banned? Toshiba, Hitachi and Mitsubishi Heavy ...

A nuclear-free Japan? It could happen.

Christian Science Monitor -
A nuclear-free Japan? It could happen. Japan's prime minister has indicated that he will consider a recommendation to phase out nuclear power by the 2030s, according to Consumer Energy Report. By CER News Desk, Guest blogger / September 16, 2012 ...

Japan aims to abandon nuclear power by 2030s

Times LIVE -
Japan joins countries such as Germany and Switzerland in turning away from nuclear power after last year's earthquake unleashed a tsunami that swamped the Fukushima Daiichi plant, causing the worst nuclear crisis since Chernobyl in 1986. Japan was the ...

Japan Won't Stop Work on Reactors, Official Says

New York Times - ‎1
Japan Won't Stop Work on Reactors, Official Says. By HIROKO TABUCHI. Published: September 16, 2012. TOKYO — Japan will not stop work on several planned reactors, the trade minister was quoted as saying on Saturday, casting further doubt on whether ...

Cabinet panel wants Japan to end nuclear power use

CBS News -
Cabinet panel wants Japan to end nuclear power use. Play CBS News Video. TOKYO — A Cabinet panel on Friday called for Japan to phase out nuclear power over the next three decades in what would be a major shift of national energy policy prompted by ...

Japan to complete reactors despite no-nuclear policy

Business Recorder (blog) -
Japan said Saturday it would go ahead with planned work to complete three new nuclear power reactors, despite saying a day earlier it would phase out atomic power generation by 2040. The construction of the reactors at three different plants was ...

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