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IAEA defends nuclear energy post-Fukushima
Using nuclear technology for the production of energy remains its best peaceful application, IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano said from Vienna.
Amano touted the safety of nuclear power more than a year after a meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant in Japan.
Japan in May shut its last operating nuclear reactor for maintenance, leaving the country without nuclear power for the first time in more than 40 years. By June, Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda gave approval for the restart of the Ohi nuclear power facility despite national protests.
Eighteen months after the (Fukushima) accident, it is clear that nuclear energy will remain an important option for many countries, Amano said at during the International Atomic Energy Agency’s regular meeting in Vienna.
“Our latest projections show a steady rise in the number of nuclear power plants in the world in the next 20 years.”
Most of that growth would come from Asian economies, he said. Lessons learned from the Fukushima disaster, he added, would drive nuclear energy policies moving forward.
“The most important lesson that we have learned from Fukushima Daiichi is that we need a much more intense focus on nuclear safety,” he said.
An 11-mile exclusion zone is in place around the plant, which suffered the worst nuclear disaster since the 1986 meltdown at the Chernobyl plant in Ukraine.
4 Comments on "IAEA defends nuclear energy post-Fukushima"
BillT on Wed, 19th Sep 2012 3:18 am
What a pile of horse shit! Propaganda for sure in huge doses. Does the 11 mile zone include Tokyo where radioactive dust covers the ground?
Kenz300 on Wed, 19th Sep 2012 1:42 pm
Nuclear energy is too costly and too dangerous.
The disaster at Fukishima continues today with the spent fuel rod pools posing danger of collapse and the plans for removing the rods still being formed a year after the disaster. TEPCO is broke and is being supported by the taxpayers of Japan. The cost and environmental damage will go on FOREVER.
Nuclear on Thu, 20th Sep 2012 3:41 pm
Only the Fukushima has been talked about in the media, the neighboring Onagawa escaped undamaged is never talked.
Come on guys, if you are serious about reducing carbon emissions, you will support nuclear power.
Arctic snow will be gone in just 4 years in summer.
http://peakoil.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=45&t=66745
New Nuclear power has become lot more safer especially after Chernobyl. China and India are importing more and more Coal and Oil and they only escape for them is to build more nuclear power.
Thorium is also hitting news headlines now a days. China is building more and
more nuclear plants now a days and expect a Nuclear resurge.
Field ID Inspection Software on Thu, 20th Sep 2012 7:28 pm
In any energy operations safety should always be the top priority. And if it cannot be ensured, the alternatives must be sought. Some may question whether nuclear energy should be abandoned or continued, but there’s no doubt that safety should be a part of any energy initiative.