Michael Jones, a Singapore-based gas and power analyst at Wood Mackenzie Ltd. The recent earthquake in Kumamoto Prefecture -- Japan’s biggest earthquake in five years -- may slow a government plan to restart the country’s nuclear reactors that were shuttered amid safety concerns after the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami that caused the triple meltdown at Fukushima. (Bloomberg)
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Nuclear is under a magnifying glass now, so even the smallest problem can create big delays. Fukushima has changed everything, and earthquakes and volcanoes are only making things worse.
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Aly Rustom
They shouldn't have been restarted anyway.
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It's a good thing we have this expert analyst to tell us this.
Notice that delays are considered "worse." All of the doomsayers saying that Japan was going to be deveasted by no muclear power were wrong. Somehow Japan has managed to not sink into the ocean.