Big Japan trade deficits? So? We don’t need no stinking nuclear plants!
A few months after most of Japan’s nuclear power plants shut down, some people starting saying, “Hey! All those plants shut down and the world hasn’t ended! Maybe Japan doesn’t really need those power plants! Maybe it was all hype!” Yeah. That’s right. It was all just hype.
Japan Trade Deficit Due To Special Factors, Including Quake
Tepco said earlier it will raise electricity rates for corporate customers by around 17% on average beginning in April, its first hike in more than three decades, to address soaring fuel costs following the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. The rate increase will be used to help the embattled utility cover the cost of buying more [...]
Without Nuclear Power, Supply Crunch Still Looms
TOKYO Nikkei–Kyushu Electric Power Co. 9508 managed to avoid blackouts Friday, but precarious power supply conditions will continue among Japanese utilities as long as their nuclear reactors remain idle. Just three reactors in Japan are operating today, but they will join their idle counterparts by the end of April, moving the nation completely off nuclear [...]
GE-Hitachi Proposes to Burn U.K. Plutonium Stockpile | The Energy Collective
GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy has proposed to the U.K. government to build an advanced nuclear reactor that would consume the country’s stockpile of surplus plutonium. The technology is called PRISM, which stands for Power Reactor Innovative Small Module. If accepted, it would be very different than the other proposals to process plutonium, including those that [...]
Anti-nukes: do they know what they are doing?
As I came out of the train station last night, I saw a group of people petitioning to end nuclear power in Japan. They were collecting signatures. Do they know the consequences of what they are pushing for, I wonder? The latest report estimates that Japan’s real GDP would be pushed down by 0.4% to [...]
UPDATE 3-Japan power firms’ LNG use at record | Reuters
Some facts and figures on Japan’s energy use since March ’11: 15% more LNG, 12% less power (mouse-tip to AtomicRod). TOKYO, Sept 13 (Reuters) – Japan’s 10 regional power firms used a record 4.81 million tonnes of liquefied natural gas in August to help offset a record low nuclear utilisation rate in the wake of [...]
Japan to sack top officials over nuclear disaster – Yahoo! News
Will this do any real good? Or is it just whitewash, to try and recover lost public trust? Will it work to do even that, I wonder? TOKYO Reuters – Japan will replace three senior bureaucrats in charge of nuclear power policy, the minister overseeing energy policy said on Thursday, five months after the world’s [...]
The Nuclear Green Revolution: Were the Japanese Engineers Who Built Fukushima Incompetent?
Don’t be fooled by the polite tone at the beginning of this article, which starts by questioning someone who questions the competence of Japanese engineers for building a nuclear power plant right in the path of a tsunami and earthquake. How could they be so foolish! As the article progresses, he takes the gloves off. [...]
Arnie Gundersen going international | Atomic Insights
I wish I hadn’t started reading this at 10 pm. The comments are fascinating. More proof that Marxian polylogism is rampant. C.S. Lewis’s send up of this type of “thinking” (from Book Three, chapter VIII of “Pilgrim’s Regress”) : Jailor: “You there… what is argument?” Master Parrot: “Argument is the attempted rationalization of the arguer’s [...]
Fukushima, IFRs and an MIT debate « BraveNewClimate
I think the lesson of Fukushima is that natural disasters cause deaths that we can’t always avoid. via Fukushima, IFRs and an MIT debate « BraveNewClimate. Some good sense being talked in this article at Brave New Climate science blog. What else has been learned? 4) We learned that 40 years ago, people didn’t design [...]
