Japan No Nukes? Not So Fast

The Japanese Prime Minister is indicating that Japan will likely build more nuclear power plants, bucking the public sentiment that developed after the Fukishima Daiichi event.

Japan's new PM says government will 'endorse' new nuclear plants

"During the campaign for last month’s House of Representatives elections Mr Abe said he would determine “the optimum power-generation makeup” for Japan within 10 years. Before taking office last month, he said he would review the Democratic Party of Japan-led government’s policy of not allowing new nuclear plants to be built.

In his latest statement, Mr Abe said the Japanese people are worried about having sufficient electricity in the immediate future. He said parties that called for a shift away from nuclear energy were therefore “not trusted” in the recent election."

Reality bites, which is exactly what I've been saying for months.  I'm sorry that they had a nuclear incident due to a once-in-a-lifetime tsunami.  But now they know what can happen with a coastal unit.  They can fixt that.   The article notes that several other plants in the quake zone did pretty well (in fact, maybe better than the North Anna unit after the freakish Northeast U.S. earthquake that had an epicenter almost directly under it).