Some people are asking: Why is Japan trying to export something it rejected at home?
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Itsunori Onodera, a Liberal Democratic lawmaker and director of a parliamentary foreign policy panel charged with approving bilateral nuclear agreements. As Japan plans to phase out nuclear power as too risky for domestic use, the government is supporting a new push by Japanese industry to sell nuclear power technology to other countries. (International Herald Tribune)
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goinggoinggone
Money over people, every time. Doesnt take a genius to work that one out.
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GG2141
Yeah! Canada tried that in the 60's w/ their CANDU reactor program. Problem is that when a country gets nuclear power they are also getting the equivalent of a DIY nuclear bomb kit. It's not really such a huge leap from a power station to a weapon.
Soooooooooo, how they gonna handle that issue??
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kurisupisu
The Japanese mentality has been so since the start of its industrialisation.
The early cars that the big makers exported would have rust holes within 2 years-cheap but nasty. When the yen was cheap it was easy for the big manufacturers here to appeal to the mass consumer of the world on price.And it the case that to export most things from Japan requires very little preparation at all.
As Japan became a massive consumer of resources it has been necessary for it to export its waste.
There are agreements in place with various countries (opposed by the people of such) for Japan to export hazardous waste. Japanese waste has been sent to Asia,Africa and Europe for disposal.
Imports on the other hand are fraught with time consuming administrative regulations.
Historical precedents show Japanese behaviour to be predisposed to be export orientated Is it really any wonder that Japan would not seek to do this with its failed nuclear technology?
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herefornow
Simple. Japan did not have any concerns about potentially risking the safety/lives of their own citizens in their haste to build nuclear plants, why would they have any moral or ethical qualms about doing the same to citizens of other countries?
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zichi
The reactors at Fukushima were designed and built by General Electric of America. There are at least 30 of the same reactors in the States.
There has been no conclusive decision that nuclear energy will end, and would take years anyway. But I hope the country will move to using renewables.
After the Fukushima nuclear disaster will any country want to buy nuclear technology from japan?
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zichi
I remain against the use of nuclear energy for power generation but it wasn't the lack of nuclear technology which caused the Fukushima nuclear disaster, it was the plain fact, that the plant hadn't been built to deal with a mega earthquake and tsunami.
Most nuclear plants across the world, including the ones in America, have not been built with the highest safety standards or state-of-the art because the costs of construction would be extremely high, like the reactor currently being built in Finland. Overall, probably France builds the safer nuclear reactors.
Most of the 450 reactors across the globe should be considered unsafe.
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JapanGal
I think it is fine. I am going to buy TEPCO stock today.
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zichi
It was America which sold the technology to the country and pressurised it from the mid 1950's, to build nuke power plants.
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Jared Norman
That makes since, spending 6 yrs working on nukes made me realize how unsafe nuke tech is. they should just be phased out. if billions are spent on green energy research we won't need nukes in the future
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rarara
as zichi pointed out, Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plants were **designed and built by General Electric of America **. meanwhile, nuclear plants of Onagawa (near Sendai) and Fukushima Dai-ni were designed/maintained by Japanese companies, and survived the quake/tsunami. japanese are NOT trying to export crappy old GE-designed plants.
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NeverSubmit
The Suzuki GSX-R 1200 is one of many motorbikes that are made by Japanese manufactures but only sold overseas as Japanese road regulations restrict those types of superbikes.
Is it wrong for Suzuki to make and sell those?
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kurisupisu
@rarara
I agree with you but I think that the essence of the problem is that mankind is investing in technology that is so destructive-that is the problem!
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zichi
The main problem with nuclear energy besides the massive costs of building power plants and then the waste storage, it's an energy we are unable to control 100%.
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