The Japanese region of Niigata is expected to endorse a decision to restart the world’s largest nuclear power plant on Monday, a watershed moment in the country’s pivot back to nuclear since the 2011 Fukushima disaster.
Kashiwazaki-Kariwa, located about 220 km (136 miles) northwest of Tokyo, was among 54 reactors shut after a massive earthquake and tsunami crippled the Fukushima Daiichi plant in the worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl.
I live not far from Fukushima (though I moved here about a decade after the disaster) and I agree. We have a huge affordability crisis going on with inflation/stagflation. Taking the nuclear plants offline caused reliance on fossil fuels, a lot of which were imported (including from Russia) and all that new cost had to be borne by someone which of course ended up being the consumers.
In an ideal world, we’d have more renewables and storage, but we’re not there yet. Being mostly mountainous, at the boundary of 3 tectonic plates, and having plenty of natural disasters also doesn’t help.
Where does the uranium get imported from?
I believe it’s Australia, Canada, and Khazakstan.
Also Uzbekistan and Namibia. There is also a list of countries with way smaller production numbers, like Russia, China, US, India, etc, but they’re all collectively produce around 10% and sell less of that
Mostly Canada.
The day earthquakes can get harnessed for energy
It’s a bit of an indirect approach, but we technically have that - for offshore quakes at least
Yeah I think that’s a moon thing. I don’t think those would take in a tsunami.
Is the day billionaires outlaw earthquakes