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Japan’s Last Nuclear Plant to Shut Down Next Month

HeadlineApr 17, 2012

Japan will go without nuclear power for the first time in decades after the last plant currently operating in the country is shut down early next month. Japan’s trade minister said two reactors that have been idling since the massive earthquake and nuclear disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi facility would not be brought back online before the country’s last plant is shut down. Before the Fukushima crisis last year, nuclear power made up about 30 percent of Japan’s electricity demand, but all but one of the country’s 54 reactors are currently offline following safety concerns.

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