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Japan's Half-Hearted Nuclear Phase-Out

Japan's Half-Hearted Nuclear Phase-Out

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Sep 19, 2012
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Although the Japanese government in last week unveiled a new national energy policy which aims to phase-out nuclear power by 2030, it is a policy so riddled with contradictions as to be almost meaningless as a predictor of future energy uses.

Surprisingly, the government chose not to put a number on nuclear power’s contribution. It was widely thought tha…

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