Local governments are not going to insist that nuclear power plants be shut down indefinitely because that would affect tax revenues. Their economies are on the line, so if at all possible, they want to restart.
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Taisuke Abiru, a research fellow for energy policy at think tank Tokyo Foundation, saying the economic risks are too high for Japan to pull the plug on all of its 54 nuclear plants. (Reuters)
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tkoind2
One more reason why the change of nuclear power to clean power will take 20-30 years. The anti-nuke movement in Japan wants this done immediately. But it is an economic and energy impossibility that the local governments fully understand.
If we want change, we need a solid long term plan to shift to clean power. And we should start by abandoning the fear based approach and start to address this from an economic and social approach to assure public consent and a foundation of support necessary to pay for the shift.
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Osakadaz
so now Fort Calhoun in Nebraska has a level 4 nuclear emergency, the Fukushima reactors are untamed, tomorrow they will try to remove a 1 tonne piece of machinery that crashed into the core of the Monju reactor in Fukui, a plutonium reactor which could practically put the final nail in Japan's coffin if anything goes wrong, the damaged pipes in Shizuoka..... the nuke industry has it's work cut out.
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