If Chancellor Merkel had been working for the Russians or the Chinese would she have done anything different?
From Reuters via The Japan Times, December 22:
Japan took the final step to allow the restart of the world’s largest nuclear power plant on Monday as the Niigata Prefectural Assembly voted to resume operations, a watershed moment in the country’s return to nuclear energy nearly 15 years after the Fukushima disaster.
Kashiwazaki-Kariwa, located about 220 km northwest of Tokyo, was among 54 reactors closed after the 2011 earthquake and tsunami crippled the Fukushima No. 1 plant in the worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl. Since then, Japan has restarted 14 of the 33 that remain operable, as it tries to wean itself off imported fossil fuels.
Kashiwazaki-Kariwa will be the first operated by Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings (Tepco), which ran the doomed Fukushima plant. On Monday, the prefectural assembly passed a vote of confidence in Niigata Gov. Hideyo Hanazumi, who backed the restart last month, effectively allowing for the plant to begin operations again.
Ahead of the vote, around 300 protesters, mostly older people, holding banners reading “No Nukes,” “We oppose the restart of Kashiwazaki-Kariwa” and “Support Fukushima” gathered in front of the Niigata prefecture assembly....
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