Guardian: Japan is shutting down its last working nuclear reactor as part of the safety drive imposed after the March 2011 tsunami triggered a meltdown at the Fukushima plant. The closure of the third reactor at the Tomari plant in Hokkaido prefecture, northern Japan, means all of the country's 50 nuclear reactors have been taken offline, leaving the country with no nuclear-derived electricity for the first time since 1970. Hokkaido Electric said it started lowering output from the reactor at 5pm (8am...
URL: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/may/05/japan-shuts-down-last-nuclear-reactor
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