Energy Bereft Japan goes Fracking
It
is difficult not to feel sympathy for Japan’s current energy dilemma.In
the early 1960s, hydrocarbon-deficient Japan eagerly embraced nuclear
power, and the country now has 50 functioning reactors online, all of
which two have been mothballed since the 11 March 2011 Fukushima Daiichi
catastrophe, where an offshore earthquake followed by a tsunami
destroyed Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s six reactor complex.Even TEPCO
refers to the incident as “The Great East Japan Earthquake.”Nuclear
power provided roughly a third of Japan’s…Read more...http://oilprice.com/Energy/Natural-Gas/Energy-Bereft-Japan-goes-Fracking.html
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