Nuclear Phase Out: News from 9/14

Nuclear Phase Out

September 14, 2012

The Japanese government unveiled their plan to phase out nuclear power by 2040. Before the Fukushima disaster, nuclear power accounted for a third of Japan’s power and plans were in place to increase nuclear power to account of more than half of Japan’s power. Now Japan is planning to reduce its nuclear power dependency to as close to zero as possible by 2040. This is a similar reaction to that of Germany, who, after the Fukushima disaster, announced that they will move away from nuclear power by late 2022. By 2040 the majority of the reactors will have reached the end of their forty-year life span.


Sources:

BBC NEWS ASIA: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-19595773

NEW YORK TIMES: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/15/world/asia/japan-will-try-to-halt-nuclear-power-by-the-end-of-the-2030s.html?pagewanted=all&_moc.semityn.www

THE ASAHI SHIMBUN: http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201209130018