35 Japanese Reactors Are Soon To Be Out Of Line

[DeSwiss]

Source: NHK World

35 Japanese reactors are soon to be out of line

NHK World
Thursday, May 12, 2011 18:28 +0900 (JST)



Japan is shutting down so many nuclear reactors because of the earthquake and other reasons that only about a third of its 54 reactors will be operating by late May.

The earthquake and tsunami on March 11th has led to the suspension of operations at 14 reactors, including those at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi plant. 19 other reactors are currently offline. They are currently undergoing regular inspections or plan to be inspected soon.

Later this week Chubu Electric Power Company will shut down 2 of its reactors at the Hamaoka plant. The move follows a government request to do so, due to concerns about the plant's earthquake readiness.

All told, 35, or about two-thirds, of Japan's commercial reactors will have been shut down by the end of May.

Read more: http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/12_29.html

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DeSwiss



"In America today you can murder land for private profit. You can leave the corpse for
all to see, and nobody calls the cops." ~Paul Brooks, The Pursuit of Wilderness, 1971

[jpak]

1. Epic nuclear fail

yup

[nc4bo]

4. Yes, epic.

It would have to take the U.S. experiencing our very own version of Fukushima or Chernobyl before we start doing the same.

So much for learning from others' mistakes.

[aquart]

2. Any of those greedy, well-paid executives commit suicide yet?

Or is that only for their victims?

[quakerboy]

3. So where

will they be getting their electricity from?

That seems like a very short timeline to come up with alternate sources for that much, particularly if they are looking to green sources.

[Downwinder]

6. Assuming there will be a need.

[NickB79]

9. In the short term, they'll be re-opening coal and gas plants

And implementing power rationing/rolling brown-outs.

In the long term, they'll need about 20,000 of GE's 5MW wind turbines to replace the electricity generated by the reactors (less if placed offshore where winds are stronger and more consistent).

[Bonobo]

5. Shouldn't they be congratulated for this? nt

[DeSwiss]

7. I'm glad you asked!

- Why yes, yes they do!!!

[plumbob]

8. Good. Some rational thinking, finally.

Now they can actually begin to recover.