Phasing out nuclear

Washington Post: Before the Fukushima Daiichi disaster last year, Japan derived a third of its electricity from nuclear power. Now, with all but one reactor offline, the country's consumption of crude and heavy fuel oil for power generation has roughly tripled. Even with that backup fossil-fired power, though, the government worries that the electrical system will fail during peak summer demand if utilities don't switch on reactors. The Financial Times' Gerrit Wiesmann reports a similar situation in Germany, which...

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