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… Japan will close its last nuclear power plant on Saturday, at least temporarily. Before the Fukushima disaster in 2011, there were 54 reactors providing one-third of the country’s electricity. The unprecedented speed and extent of Japan’s current ….

Japan has 54 nuclear reactors, but as of Saturday, not one of them will be in operation – how will the country cope? guardian.co.uk , Justin McCurry in Tokyo, Thursday 3 May 2012 Anti-nuclear protesters gather outside Shinjuku station, Tokyo. Photogr…

In a post that challenges the facts in a recent WaPo piece about Fukushima,  » Phasing out nuclear « : To the existing human suffering in Japan will be added, over time, countless people who will sicken and die prematurely as a result of their exposure t…

FOR decades few countries were more evangelical about the charms of nuclear power than Japan, and until the earthquake and tsunami in March last year nuclear plants generated almost 30% of its electricity. Yet by May 5th at the latest, the last of Japa…

… seemed a steady mainstay of Japan’s power supply until the March 11, 2011, tsunami crippled the Fukushima Dai-Ichi plant in the worst atomic accident since the 1986 Chernobyl explosion. Giant solar arrays and wind farms can’t be built overnight and…

Global responsibility in mass casualty events: The Israeli experience in Japan Am J Disast Med Ofer Merin, MD; Nehemia Blumberg, MD; David Raveh, MD; Ariel Bar, MD; Masafumi Nishizawa, MD; Ophir Cohen-Marom, MD Winter 2012; pages 61-64 “…. Followin…

Man stays to help animals left to die in Japan nuclear zone KING5.com (blog) CNN reported in January that Naoto Matsumura, a life-long resident and fifth generation farmer, has refused to heed the mandatory evacuation since the nuclear meltdown . The g…

Can Low Doses of Radiation Can Cause More Damage than High Doses? The New York Times’ Matthew Wald reports today: The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists[’] May-June issue carries seven articles and an editorial on the subject of low-dose radiation, …

Japan is grappling with the question of whether older nuclear reactors are more prone to spinning out of control when a disaster hits, as the nation pushes to restart units for the first time since last year’s accident in Fukushima.Source : The Wall St…

… functional nuclear reactors off line for scheduled maintenance (four reactors were destroyed at Fukushima Number One). But due to local opposition, none of the reactors have been brought back up yet. Faced with Third-World-like power shortages, the…