Will Japan Embrace Geothermal Power to Move Away from Nuclear?

Will Japan Embrace Geothermal Power to Move Away from Nuclear?

by admin@namecake.com (John Daly)

Despite the recent victory of Japan’s Liberal Democratic Party, which is pro-nuclear and won a nationwide parliamentary vote on 16 December, issues surrounding the country’s nuclear energy policies will not go away.In the aftermath of the 11 March 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear crisis, the then ruling Japanese government Democratic Party of Japan took the country's 54 nuclear reactors offline and subsequently restarted two reactors at the Oi nuclear power plant in Fukui Prefecture.An additional element for broadening the country’s…Read more...http://oilprice.com/Alternative-Energy/Geothermal-Energy/Will-Japan-Embrace-Geothermal-Power-to-Move-Away-from-Nuclear.html