Japan's expensive nuke-free course

This is actually quite interesting -- showing the costs of several different scenarios for Japan's economic trajectory with different percentages of energy-generating technologies.  What's REALLY interesting is the hit that their GDP would take if they try to go totally nuke-free.  That'll leave a mark if it happens.

Japan considers nuclear free future

"But many consider an over-reliance on renewables to be expensive and unrealistic. The no-nuclear scenario could reduce the country’s gross domestic product by up to ¥31 trillion (US $396 billion) per year, according to the committee. Some local government officials, including Hashimoto, have begun to soften their position on nuclear energy in a bid to protect jobs, and two reactors in Fukui prefecture look set to be restarted."

 Well, they can try...