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Japan’s decision to phase out nuclear could be ‘climate disaster’
Proposals released today reveal Nuclear reactors will be shut down by 2040, with emphasis placed on renewables and fossil fuels to fill the energy gap.
Until last year’s Fukushima disaster, Nuclear energy accounted for a third of the country’s electricity output, generated by 50 reactors across Japan. Tokyo had planned to expand that capacity by 50% by 2030.
According to the news agency AP, the Ministry of Environment projects that Japan will produce about 15% greenhouse gas emissions this fiscal year than it did in 1990, the baseline year for measuring progress in reducing emissions.
Meanwhile Reuters report Japan aims to triple the share of renewable power to 30% of its energy mix, but will remain a top importer of fossil fuels for the next decade.
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Japan has already said it will not be signing up to an extension to the Kyoto Protocol. A member of its negotiating team at the UNFCCC Bangkok talks told RTCC it needed the flexibility post Fukushima to develop a new energy strategy without constraints.
http://www.rtcc.org/energy/critics-warn-japans-decision-to-phase-out-nuclear-could-be-climate-disaster/
Until last year’s Fukushima disaster, Nuclear energy accounted for a third of the country’s electricity output, generated by 50 reactors across Japan. Tokyo had planned to expand that capacity by 50% by 2030.
According to the news agency AP, the Ministry of Environment projects that Japan will produce about 15% greenhouse gas emissions this fiscal year than it did in 1990, the baseline year for measuring progress in reducing emissions.
Meanwhile Reuters report Japan aims to triple the share of renewable power to 30% of its energy mix, but will remain a top importer of fossil fuels for the next decade.
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Japan has already said it will not be signing up to an extension to the Kyoto Protocol. A member of its negotiating team at the UNFCCC Bangkok talks told RTCC it needed the flexibility post Fukushima to develop a new energy strategy without constraints.
http://www.rtcc.org/energy/critics-warn-japans-decision-to-phase-out-nuclear-could-be-climate-disaster/
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and I was hoping that we'd have a healthy planet...
Okay... I'll start working up carbon eaters...
