Japan election may be tailwind for nuclear restarts as public mood shifts

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Japan's push to restart nuclear reactors, shut down after the Fukushima disaster a decade ago, 

Japans push that’s a big call, it’s Power companies and the LDP push. I have yet to meet someone who said “you know I think we need Nuclear power again” most people I’ve met a justifiably scarred of restarting these old plants.

"There's got to be some soul-searching over why action couldn't be taken earlier,"

Because they are incapable of forward planning and fall back on what worked for their grandparents.

That was very predictable. Once people start to pay more for electricity, their concerns about nuclear energy decrease as their bank books get hit...

In addition to my above post. Most people do not understand that the risk of a meltdown in case of an earthquake is almost the same when compering an online reactor to an off line one. As the nuclear materiel is still stored on site. therefore if it looses power the cooling tanks will evaporate or a tank ruptures which will result in a meltdown.

This article should have a warning label, "Pure propaganda brought to you by TEPCO and the LDP". Paul is right, too.

Nowt wrong wirh nuclear power, fukushima was all about the positioning of cooling systems, (on the ground and swamped by the tsunami) basic human error led to a catastrophe.

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Nowt wrong wirh nuclear power,

But, there is, which you unintentionally point out in your next sentence.

basic human error led to a catastrophe.

There will always be humans designing, building, running, and maintaining these things.

And, that is a huge problem.