Close Nuclear Reactor, Tokyo Relieved Thousands
Thousands of Tokyo residents took to the streets with joy after the Japanese government closed the last nuclear reactor, located in Hokkaido, from about 50 plants scattered across the country.Actions that create the Japanese government is no longer an atomic-powered electricity for the first time since 1970. Certainly not for good.
The main threat to strangle Japan is a power shortage. However, the protesters insisted on all nuclear reactors should be closed permanently.
Routine maintenance of top-fired plants that have closed are still running. However, none of the nuclear reactor in Japan has been in operation back in the last 12 months.
"This is a historic day," an activist named Masashi Ishikawa speeches among the masses, as quoted from the pages of The Independent, "there are a lot of nuclear power [in the country], but none of them turned on. This thanks to all of us."
The spokesman claimed the protests last nuclear plant was switched off just as the Japanese commemorate National Children's Day. During this time, according to them, children have been too often exposed to radiation from a reactor.
Although the energy supply is fully dependent on oil and gas, the closing steps must be taken to determine the resistance of the nuclear reactors of the earthquake and tsunami.Before the disaster, Japan relies on nuclear power to meet a third of electricity demand.
Japanese Trade Minister, Yukio Edano, as well as three other ministers, had been trying to win support from the community to reopen the two reactors owned by Kansai Electric Power in Ohi. Attempts were made to reduce the impact of power shortage as much as 20 percent.
Japan recorded free of nuclear power for the last time in 1970. At that time, the two reactors shut down in order to function regular maintenance.