Japan to restart the world's largest nuclear power plant?

Japan is looking into reactivating its nuclear fleet after 13 years of the Fukushima accident. The safety ban for Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant has been lifted - and not everybody is happy about it!

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[DWPlanetA]

What do you make of Japan’s nuclear plans?

[JusticeAlways]

I believe nuclear power is going to be a necessity for stable supply of electricity.

[ganaspin]

Japan will need every drop of electricity from clean energy they manage to find. They are the most reliant on energy imports from all G7 economies.

[bodia]

Germany should also do that to reduce nat gas prices

[fabriglas]

Build a safer nuclear plant pebble bed version not old school one

[speculawyer]

Do it! Restart those plants and move to Eavs.

[grafity]

Coal generation in Germany even fell last year, even though they shut down there last Nuclear Power Plants last year.

[lawrenceheyman]

I'd hate to be the one making the decision.
Without knowing enough about Japan's alternatives and how reliable the safety inspection process was, then I would lean to better nuclear than coal-fired electricity.

[madshorn]

Restarting old hardware may be smart in our current predicament, but building new nuclear power stations (or fusion) will trap us in a growth cycle leading to global warming for a different reason: Waste heat.

If we go down the nuclear road and grow our global economy 3% for 150 years the waste heat from nuclear reactions will warm the atmosphere as much as GHGs do now.

Look up 'deep warming'.
It is basic physics: We can continue economic growth much longer.

We can bring the poor parts of the world up to the level we need to be on in a circular economy, but that's it.
Trying to apply 20th century thinking about international politics in todays world will result in losing a human friendly climate.

Sharing and chosing human wellbeing as a goal is our only option.
(And don't worry, we can still be d*cks to each other, just not with tanks and bombers).