Japan prepares to restart world's biggest nuclear plant, 15 years after Fukushima (www.reuters.com)
from MicroWave@lemmy.world to world@lemmy.world on 22 Dec 03:00
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The Japanese region of Niigata is expected to endorse a decision to restart the world’s largest nuclear power plant on Monday, a watershed moment in the country’s pivot back to nuclear since the 2011 Fukushima disaster.

Kashiwazaki-Kariwa, located about 220 km (136 miles) northwest of Tokyo, was among 54 reactors shut after a massive earthquake and tsunami crippled the Fukushima Daiichi plant in the worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl.

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fizzle@quokk.au on 22 Dec 04:46 collapse

Easy for me to say because we don’t have Nuclear here but… probably the right choice.

tiredofsametab@fedia.io on 22 Dec 04:53 collapse

I live not far from Fukushima (though I moved here about a decade after the disaster) and I agree. We have a huge affordability crisis going on with inflation/stagflation. Taking the nuclear plants offline caused reliance on fossil fuels, a lot of which were imported (including from Russia) and all that new cost had to be borne by someone which of course ended up being the consumers.

In an ideal world, we'd have more renewables and storage, but we're not there yet. Being mostly mountainous, at the boundary of 3 tectonic plates, and having plenty of natural disasters also doesn't help.

icelimit@lemmy.ml on 22 Dec 05:00 collapse

The day earthquakes can get harnessed for energy

Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world on 22 Dec 05:04 collapse

Is the day billionaires outlaw earthquakes