Japan Shuts Down the Last of Its 50 Nuclear Reactors

[birdman]

Oh hell now you've done it. You'll have the *expletive deleted* hippies up in arms about radioactive oil and *expletive deleted* and then we'll be *expletive deleted*ed when the EPA does their will.

It's coal mainly.  Most coal is a few ppm uranium and thorium (it is rock after all), so when burned (a typical plant is close to a million tons a year...the fly ash contains tons of uranium and thorium.  Of course, so does EVERYTHING else.

[seeker_two]

So....we can expect a much smaller Godzilla, then.....

[stevelyn]

Looks like Alaska just got a new LNG customer and a pipeline to supply it. 

[longeyes]

They've got them on the list, they'll none of them be missed.

[French G.]

Japan wants voluntary use reductions to avoid blackouts.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-18113785

Hey guys, we know we killed a bunch of cheap power and probably a lot of jobs with that whole reactor shutdown thing, but could you try to turn down the thermostat and turn off the lights? Way to go.

[HankB]

Japan wants voluntary use reductions to avoid blackouts.

They say the Japanese public demanded an end to nuclear power.

Well, it looks as if their demands have been met.

I wonder if they're still going to be happy once summer rolls around. (Insert old proverb about being careful what you wish for, lest you get it.)

[SADShooter]

They say the Japanese public demanded an end to nuclear power.

Well, it looks as if their demands have been met.

I wonder if they're still going to be happy once summer rolls around. (Insert old proverb about being careful what you wish for, lest you get it.)

I was actually thinking of the one about stupidity of large groups...