Shikoku Electric Power Co. was to shut the 566-megawatt No. 2 reactor at its Ikata plant in Ehime Prefecture on Friday night for regularly scheduled maintenance, Akira Hirai, a spokesman for the utility, said by phone. The unit was scheduled to completely stop generating electricity at 11:50 p.m., he said.
After the unit is shut, Shikoku Electric will have no reactors in operation. No date has been set to resume power output at the plant.
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March 15th, 2011 Deflect any questions about scary numbers with the “we’ll review for scientific validity”
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Guest
January 13, 2012
And it appears that Japan is doing just fine without the plants running.
CaptD
January 15, 2012
Yes I agree, the more that are “DOWN” the less chance for another Trillion Dollar Eco-Disaster!
CaptD
January 15, 2012
Wind and solar power are leaving nuclear in the dust: http://is.gd/CfpiUJ
and
Solar Power Could Produce >50% of Global Electricity: http://is.gd/PU3k2y
and
Estimating US Gov’t, Subsidies http://is.gd/hwnsic
and
SOLAR Power Year in Review 2011: http://is.gd/8dlYIx
CaptD
January 15, 2012
As Fukushima Cleanup Begins, Long-term Impacts are Weighed
http://is.gd/jKm8Sl
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Beginning this month, at least 1,000 square kilometers of land — much of it forest and farms — will be cleaned up as workers power-spray buildings, scrape soil off fields, and remove fallen leaves and undergrowth from woods near houses. The goal is to make all of Fukushima livable again. But as scientists, engineers, and ordinary residents begin this massive task, they face the possibility that their efforts will create new environmental problems in direct proportion to their success in remediating the radioactive contamination.
CaptD
January 15, 2012
Nuclear Lies: Japanese History of Fake Reports
http://wp.me/pSjep-1Zx
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Bloomberg
March 18, 2011
The unfolding disaster at the Fukushima nuclear plant follows decades of falsified safety reports, fatal accidents and underestimated earthquake risk in Japan’s atomic power industry.
The destruction caused by last week’s 9.0 earthquake and tsunami comes less than four years after a 6.8 quake shut the world’s biggest atomic plant, also run by Tokyo Electric Power Co. In 2002 and 2007, revelations the utility had faked repair records forced the resignation of the company’s chairman and president, and a three-week shutdown of all 17 of its reactors.
With almost no oil or gas reserves of its own, nuclear power has been a national priority for Japan since the end of World War II, a conflict the country fought partly to secure oil supplies. Japan has 54 operating nuclear reactors — more than any other country except the U.S. and France — to power its industries, pitting economic demands against safety concerns in the world’s most earthquake-prone country.