Aug 11, 2013

Six Japanese nuclear reactors likely to resume operating by March next year and a total of 16 reactors by March 2015 [feedly]

Six Japanese nuclear reactors likely to resume operating by March next year and a total of 16 reactors by March 2015
The Institute of Energy Economics Japan says that their forecast is that the first nuclear reactor of the new batch (of about ten applicant reactors) will restart by July 2014.

Out of Japan's 50 reactors, only two have been online since they were forcibly shut down in 2011, following the nuclear meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi plant. With the rising costs of fossil fuel imports and the country's strong reliance on nuclear power for its electricity supply, there is an enormous pressure to bring the reactors back online. This is in spite of the growing public disapproval of nuclear power.

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