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April 17, 2012

Japan’s Last Nuclear Plant to Shut Down Next Month 
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Japan will go without nuclear power for the first time in decades after
the last plant currently operating in the country is shut down early
next month. Japan’s trade minister said two reactors that have been
idling since the massive earthquake and nuclear disaster at the
Fukushima Daiichi facility would not be brought back online before the
country’s last plant is shut down. Before the Fukushima crisis last
year, nuclear power made up about 30 percent of Japan’s electricity
demand, but all but one of the country’s 54 reactors are currently
offline following safety concerns.

 

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