Japan business lobby says Abe government can't rely on nuclear energy

[uawchild]

Source: Reuters

apan's use of nuclear power is unlikely to meet a government target of returning to near pre-Fukushima levels and the world's No.3 economy needs to get serious about boosting renewables, a senior executive at a top business lobby said.

Under Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's energy policies, nuclear is supposed to supply a fifth of energy generation by 2030, but Teruo Asada, vice chairman of the Japan Association of Corporate Executives, said Japan was unlikely to get anywhere near this.

The influential business lobby has issued a proposal urging Tokyo to remove hurdles for renewable power amid the shaky outlook for nuclear power after the 2011 Fukushima disaster.

The move shows how business attitudes are now shifting as reactor restarts get held up by legal challenges, safety issues and public scepticism.

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-japan-energy-idUSKCN1020XH

[NNadir]

1. Actually, relying on so called "renewable energy" will cause Japan and the rest of the planet...

...far more trouble with the seas, since they will rise relentlessly, since so called "renewable energy" is a tremendous and expensive failure.

In the last ten years, the world squandered two trillion dollars, roughly 2/5 of the the annual GDP on so called "renewable energy."

The result of this quixotic enterprise in futility is that the accumulation of the dangerous fossil fuel waste carbon dioxide is accumulating at the fastest rate ever observed.

I gave this data here: All time record set for week-to-week annual measurements of annual CO2 increases at Mauna Loa.

20,000 people died from the Tidal wave at Fukushima, not that anyone cares about these dead, focusing instead on radiation, which killed almost no one.

Rising seas will make Japan's and the rest of the world's coastal cities better how?

The number of people dying from air pollution - while people stupidly whine about Fukushima - has reacted 7 million people a year. The leaks from the reactors didn't even kill as many people as will die in the next twenty four hours from air pollution, which is about 19,000 people today.

The hostility to nuclear energy in our party is - I hate to say it - our creationism. It is ignorant, and it is environmentally disastrous.

Nuclear energy need not be perfect; it need not be without risk to be vastly superior to everything else. It only needs to be vastly superior to everything else. It is, the world's largest, by far, source of climate change gas free minimized primary energy, dwarfing wind, solar, and hydroelectricity combined.

Have a nice Sunday.

[kristopher]

2. Nuclear power is idiotic.

Renewables are cheaper, cleaner, much faster to deploy, and safer all around. Not to mention that a distributed energy grid has inherent redundancy which makes it far more reliable than a grid built around large scale centralized generation such as coal and its twin, nuclear.

[forest444]

3. Dishonest Abe has to go.

He's basically Japan's answer to the GOP: a neocon, privatizing corporate handmaiden who, despite poor economic results, skates by on hypernationalism and ethnic pride.

[NWCorona]

4. Some of the proposed changes to the Constitution are a bit troubling

[forest444]

6. Sure. To hear him diss the current one as a "peace constitution" is indeed troubling.

He seems to be implying that Japan somehow needs a "war constitution" - hardly reassuring, considering who their neighbors are.

[NWCorona]

5. Japan is really stuck energy wise with almost no natural sources.