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So much for carbon emissions reduction targets in the land of the Rising Sun.
Anxious Japan prepares for life without nuclear power
Japan has 54 nuclear reactors, but as of Saturday, not one of them will be in operation – how will the country cope?
Thursday 3 May 2012 16.06 BST
This weekend Japan will begin a bold experiment in energy use that no one had thought possible – until the Fukushima Daiichi power plantsuffered a triple meltdown just over a year ago.
On Saturday, when the Hokkaido electric power company shuts down the No3 reactor at its Tomari plant for maintenance, the world's third-largest economy will be without a single working nuclear reactor for the first time for almost 50 years...
...None of Japan's idle reactors will be permitted to go back online until they pass stringent "stress tests" – simulations designed to test their ability to withstand catastrophic events such as the 14-metre tsunami that knocked out Fukushima Daiichi's backup power supply, and sparked the world's worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl.
While some experts have criticised the two-stage stress tests as inadequate, an immediate return to even a limited amount of nuclear power now seems impossible...
So much for carbon emissions reduction targets in the land of the Rising Sun.
Anxious Japan prepares for life without nuclear power
Japan has 54 nuclear reactors, but as of Saturday, not one of them will be in operation – how will the country cope?
Thursday 3 May 2012 16.06 BST
This weekend Japan will begin a bold experiment in energy use that no one had thought possible – until the Fukushima Daiichi power plantsuffered a triple meltdown just over a year ago.
On Saturday, when the Hokkaido electric power company shuts down the No3 reactor at its Tomari plant for maintenance, the world's third-largest economy will be without a single working nuclear reactor for the first time for almost 50 years...
...None of Japan's idle reactors will be permitted to go back online until they pass stringent "stress tests" – simulations designed to test their ability to withstand catastrophic events such as the 14-metre tsunami that knocked out Fukushima Daiichi's backup power supply, and sparked the world's worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl.
While some experts have criticised the two-stage stress tests as inadequate, an immediate return to even a limited amount of nuclear power now seems impossible...
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