Thursday, July 7, 2011

Japan's Choice

The WSJ reports today that 35 of Japan's 54 nuclear reactors are presently out of service. Together, these 54 reactors provide Japan with 30% of its power supply.

Obe, M. (2011, July 7). Japan ponders wider nuclear testing. WSJ p. A10.

Majia here: Japan must choose NOW to pursue alternative sources of energy or face ongoing cataclysmic risks from aging nuclear plants built in an earthquake prone land.

Already much of northern Japan is probably uninhabitable, although the Japanese authorities are loathe to admit this horrific reality.

Losing up to 30% of a nation's energy supply is daunting, but when one's future as a people and as a nation are at issue I'm not sure how the Japanese could choose to hang onto this dreadfully dangerous source of energy that is, as I write, irrevocably poisoning the populace...

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