[DUMBGRUNT]

With all the spending to recover from the 2011 tsunami, Japan should have the hottest economy on earth?

[PGR88]

Indeed. Print $100 Trillion Yen, bought directly by the Central Bank with ex-nihilo money, to spend on ice walls everywhere

The economy will boom!

[stanne]

Nike power is great. Until it’s not

[NativeSon]

They didn’t learn from their past and now they won’t have Godzilla to save them.

[Terry L Smith]

Whoever it was, that sold the Nipponese government the idea of having a nuclear power plant so close to the shore, must have been the same minds behind the Shoreham plant fiasco on Long Island, NY, and the San Onofre plant brouhaha in California.

[Smittie]

"During the accident, the uranium fuel grew so hot that some of it is believed to have melted through the reactor’s steel floors and possibly into the basement"

They don't know where the fuel rods are. That is not a good thing.

[Mr. K]

If they had extra batteries, this would have been one of the greatest success stories of nuclear energy.

[Moonman62]

With all the spending to recover from the 2011 tsunami, Japan should have the hottest economy on earth?

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