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Transport-erector launcher, Dongfeng-31
Fifth, the future of Japanese nuclear power is still ambiguous. By the end of 2010, the country had 50 active reactors producing 30 per cent of all domestically consumed electricity
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. A promising area of Japan’s nuclear power industry is the development of fast-neutron reactors (fast-breeder reactors), which are able to quickly regenerate spent nuclear fuel. In the aftermath of the Fukushima disaster on September 14, 2012, the Yoshihiko Noda administration adopted ...
... construction of new NPPs will continue despite the situation around the troubled Fukushima-1 NPP in Japan.
Yukiya Amano
, a Japanese diplomat and IAEA Director General said in July 2011 that he didn’t “rule out some slowdown of nuclear energy development ... ... the pipeline (Poland, Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia). The
new informal association
was established with a view to supporting nuclear power industry development.
The Fukushima-1 tragedy hasn’t impacted long-term energy policy of Russia, China, India ...
... From this viewpoint the Fukushima tragedy exacerbated a long-standing crisis of the national political system, exposing its flaws and raising the issue of its urgent fundamental reform.
An important lesson of Fukushima was the deflating myth of a safe nuclear power industry in a country located in a seismically unsafe area. For many decades the Japanese were purposefully indoctrinated that the situation is under control and there is no need to worry. The lesson taught is that the elements are unpredictable, and a man facing the elements with all his technical potential is completely vulnerable....
