Japan’s Prime Minister Seeks Public Support for Nuclear Energy

[kristopher]

4. Lot of irrelevant information there, Nick.

What you wrote is an attempt to justify nuclear (which you strongly support) and it has nothing to do with the actual problem.

First, Noda is claiming they need to restart 2 reactors, not 48GW worth.

Second, it didn't take Germany 30 years to install their renewable base - they started in earnest only 14 years ago concentrating on wind, and most of the capacity has been installed in the last 5.

As for solar, of the 25GW in place, they installed 7.5GW in 2011 alone, and are on track to add another 8GW this year.

They want to restart the nuclear plants to set a precedent allowing them to restart most if not all of their fleet of reactors. Their 'nuclear village' simply doesn't want to take the financial loss, no matter the risk to the rest of the country. It has dick-all to do with actual necessity, maintaining the quality of life or national security.