Nuke power generation trump card in fighting global warming: Fukuda

Tuesday 15th April, 02:19 PM JST

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japanyesterday at 02:23 PM JST - 15th April

let me be the first to say it "Yes, another reason to build more nuclear power plants."
evil_robot at 02:53 PM JST - 15th April

I agree, and we should be helping Iran build safe nuclear power plants! I'm all for nuclear energy. Yay! Go!
Farmboy at 03:06 PM JST - 15th April

Earthquakes might be a problem, though...and then, when you hear that some pipe containing radioactive water broke, but no radiation was released, do you believe it?
keech2 at 06:52 PM JST - 15th April

I was listening to a podcast(Skeptoid) a couple weeks ago and the podcaster was talking about this issue. His stance that modern nuclear energy power plants were extremely safe and left almost no waste intrigued me. So I did a little research. While the information I got made me feel better about nuclear power and its safety, I'm still not one hundred percent convinced.
Farmboy at 07:05 PM JST - 15th April

The ones in the US are relatively safe, but the storage of waste is a huge issue. http://library.thinkquest.org/17940/texts/nuclearwastestorage/nuclearwastestorage.html
Sarge at 09:17 PM JST - 15th April

I once read a science-fiction book in which the U.S. went with inefficient, dirty coal-based energy and into decline, while Japan went with nuclear energy and ended up giving ODA to the U.S.
usaexpat at 10:59 PM JST - 15th April

I agree, it's about time the world got on with building new reactors. In the US things came to a dead stop after the panic surrounding 3 mile island. In my hometown I know that they are building 3 new natural gas plants which are incredibly expensive to operate due to the cost of natural gas. They were supposed to be coal fired but people objected to the pollution issues. Nuclear would have been so much better.
capone at 12:37 AM JST - 16th April

jeez what a dope...no reason for the japanese to fear NK or china, their own govt will nuke them first, accidentally
ca1ic0cat at 03:07 AM JST - 16th April

muke power is one part of a solution but I think that conservation would be a better and more immediate start. We could turn off all the lights in Shinjuku after 11 pm, for instance. The indoor temp really doesn't need to be 27C all winter long.

That would go a long way to saving a lot of energy. Then it doesn't have to be generated in the first place.
ka_chan at 05:07 AM JST - 16th April

It just shows that Fukuda is old and out of touch. Nuclear is not a solution; it's not a replenishable resource. Solar, wind, water, and earth are. Japan has wind, it can do solar just as well as the Germans, it as plenty of rivers, and it definitely has geothermal (onsen). If Japan would just tap into geothermal and electric cars, she would not need to import so much oil. On reason for the last war.
Sarge at 07:27 AM JST - 16th April

0cat - If all the lights in Shinjuku were turned off after 11pm, it wouldn't be Shinjuku.
Farmboy at 10:05 AM JST - 16th April

Here's today's history lesson. See what you think.

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D0CE4D81E3FF931A25751C0A967958260