The basic policy is to reduce reliance on nuclear power in the medium to long term. But when considering the economy, the question is how to cope by suddenly switching off nuclear power when there are no substitute energy sources, and if this is feasible.
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Chief Cabinet Secretary Osamu Fujimura (Reuters)
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gaijinfo
So you have a policy, but you don't know if it's feasible? Nice.
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recherche88
Most of the nuclear plants are currently shut down aren't they? And we are coping.
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Utrack
Waste to Energy power plants would work, instead of just incineration of waste is a waste of energy that could be used towards providing energy to the country. There are only 7 waste to energy power plants in the whole of Japan with a population of over 168 million people. 168 million people and industry can produce enough incinerate-able waste to run many many waste to energy power plants. Convert the incinerators Now. and What is Chief Cabinet Secretary Osamu Fujimura talking about.
http://www.industcards.com/wte-japan.htm
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zichi
Prior to the 3/11 nuclear disaster was only generating about 25% of the total power. With only four or five nuclear reactors currently in operation, that rate has probably dropped below 10%.
I would like to see no nuclear power plants but realistically, the country will need to operate some of them, until alternatives are in place and generating power. With the level of powerful earthquakes, this country should never have built the atomic plants but now we have 18 power plants and 54 reactors, minus 10 in Fukushima would make 44. It would take more than 50 years to decommission them all.
Total power consumption could be cut by 5% by both the private and business sectors without a lost of quality of life or lost of production. 10% of total power is generated by private industry. That could be increased to 20%.
Currently less than 2% of total power is generated by geothermal. Experts in that field have stated it be increased to 13%.
Like Utrack stated, turning waste incinerators into power generation makes common sense. There is a whole pile of heat produced by business which could be used to generate power. Like the heat generated at DATA centers to cool the computers.
The government spends annually ¥500 billion on energy R&D with more than 95% of it going to the nuclear industry which should be going to renewable energy advancements.
The country could achieve 20% out of the 25% of power generated by nuclear even before building a wind turbine, over night pumping station, tidal and wave generators.
There's an enormous gas field in the China Sea which is being claimed by Japan, China, South Korea. These countries need to reach a trade pact and start to extract the gas for the benefit of them all.
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