Japan nuclear operator sees red after quake

[jpak]

http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5gcl4kD-dRLyaHEtuxWwJ8r5NOOJg

TOKYO (AFP) — TEPCO, the world's biggest private electricity supplier, said Wednesday it expected to go into the red this year for the first time in nearly three decades after an earthquake shut down a nuclear plant.

Tokyo Electric Power Co. said net profit plunged 88 percent year-on-year in the first six months to 21.1 billion yen (185.21 million dollars).

The world's largest nuclear plant, operated by TEPCO northwest of Tokyo, has been shut since a July 16 earthquake that caused dozens of problems at the facility, including a fire and a radioactive leak.

UN nuclear inspectors found no safety risks at the plant, but the company has said it will be shut at least for the rest of the year.

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[NNadir]

1. And let's not forget the lives that will be lost when dangerous fossil fuels replace this plant.

Although the anti-nuke community has been gloating about this plant (at the same time it couldn't care less about the 181 Chinese who died a few months ago in the coal collapse), the reality is that the only loss of life associated with the earthquake, besides those killed in collapsing buildings, are those lives that will be lost when Japan burns coal and other dangerous fossil fuels to replace the output of this plant.

I'm sure the anti-nuke community, which blames the earthquake on nuclear power, is up in arms about the deaths from the dangerous fossil fuel waste that is now being released in Japan.

They're not?

They couldn't care less?

Why am I not surprised?