Vast majority of ruling bloc candidates favor rebooting reactors

Japan Times ^ | Dec 1, 2014 | Japan Times

[WhiskeyX]

A huge majority of those planning to run in the Dec. 14 Lower House election on the ticket of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party or its junior coalition ally, Komeito, favor restarting the nation’s idled nuclear reactors, a Kyodo News poll showed Sunday.

A total of 90.7 percent of those eyeing a run on the LDP ticket and 79.4 percent of prospective Komeito candidates said they support the reboot of reactors, which generated around 30 percent of the country’s total electricity before the 2011 triple meltdown at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant. All of the nation’s 48 reactors are currently offline.

[hoosierham]

IT WAS A STUPID POLITICAL DECISION TO SHUT DOWN THE POWER PLANTS.
In the U.S. we have a bunch of similar stupid politicians.

[logi_cal869]

Yes, the same stupid politicians (US) that squandered a $Trillion in so-called stimulus and didn't see fit to institute construction of a single new nuclear power plant to replace our dangerous and aging plants of the same design as Fukushima. Nah. We got bike lanes, bike bridges, solar panels, windmills and pet-projects.

Reckless. Unless there's new furor or concern over the Japan nuclear crisis, it will be another 20 years before there's the will to address this problem (unless, of course, we have our own 'crisis', at which time there will be a similar call to 'shut down the dangerous plants' while ignoring decades of negligent infrastructure 'non-planning').