Graham_Cowan comments

The alternative is coal and gas. On these, especially gas, the Japanese government makes money.

This comment thread appears to be full of recipients of Japanese government money who understand that this money is partly fossil fuel money, and who want it to continue, but don't want to just say so. Rather, they must pretend that government is not opposed to nuclear energy in Japan, the people are not in favour, and they, the government money-takers, are bravely biting the hand that feeds. Actually, licking.

Aly Rustom asserts

once these reactors go back on they will make so much money for the establishment they won't allow them to be turned off.

If there were a monolithic establishment that was in line for "so much money", perhaps this would be sufficient motivation for it, even if the reactivation were a bad thing overall. And this would mean Rustom, implicitly not part of that evil Establishment, was on the side of the angels (the good ones).

Unfortunately for Rustom's argument, the members of Japan's establishment who are paid from tax revenue have a substantial interest against nuclear power restart: fossil fuel tax revenue. The sources for this revenue include, but are not limited to, the LNG tax whose beginning, and schedule of rate increases, were reported in Japan Times' September 29, 2012 article "Green tax to come into force in October".

Fukushima was no disaster, no matter how you spin it, says Geoff Russell (http://t.co/HcSfi1ty )

The Japanese government has gained more than a billion dollars in royalty revenue on imported LNG in the last three quarters of 2011, as a result of its aggressively antinuclear handling of the loss of the nuclear power plants.