Comments on: Nuclear power now and 10 years hence http://whatjapanthinks.com/2011/08/05/nuclear-power-now-and-10-years-hence/ From kimono to keitai; research Japanese facts and figures through translated opinion polls and surveys. Thu, 10 Apr 2014 22:29:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.2 By: apan http://whatjapanthinks.com/2011/08/05/nuclear-power-now-and-10-years-hence/comment-page-1/#comment-246177 Mon, 08 Aug 2011 16:18:04 +0000 http://whatjapanthinks.com/?p=4247#comment-246177 Close enough Nevin and just hope people realize how important and precious Monju is and that it is not a bad thing, also this area is blessed with few earthquakes to begin with!

]]> By: apan http://whatjapanthinks.com/2011/08/05/nuclear-power-now-and-10-years-hence/comment-page-1/#comment-246175 Mon, 08 Aug 2011 16:14:00 +0000 http://whatjapanthinks.com/?p=4247#comment-246175 Energy sufficiency and energy independence are going to be key, Monju is not unsafe if safety is top priority ad avoid human error bottom line!
Japan needs energy,!

]]> By: Nevin http://whatjapanthinks.com/2011/08/05/nuclear-power-now-and-10-years-hence/comment-page-1/#comment-246174 Mon, 08 Aug 2011 16:12:17 +0000 http://whatjapanthinks.com/?p=4247#comment-246174 Hey apan, are you living in Tsuruga?

]]> By: apan http://whatjapanthinks.com/2011/08/05/nuclear-power-now-and-10-years-hence/comment-page-1/#comment-246173 Mon, 08 Aug 2011 16:11:12 +0000 http://whatjapanthinks.com/?p=4247#comment-246173 If Kan takes away Monju, which i hope he and Japan doesn’t where he will resign soon enough, this will severely strip the wealth away from western Japan! And Tsuruga fireworks will fizzle :-(
Monju is future generation energy and tons of money hasgone intothis thing, scrapping thisad that seems to be Kan issue, the fact he scrappedthe supercomputer projectin Kobe was really sad! Can never forgive him for that one!
Monju and nuclear energy have a futurr, just look at Fusion and thorium, something I am surprised has not caught up on.

]]> By: Nevin http://whatjapanthinks.com/2011/08/05/nuclear-power-now-and-10-years-hence/comment-page-1/#comment-246172 Mon, 08 Aug 2011 16:07:39 +0000 http://whatjapanthinks.com/?p=4247#comment-246172 Don’t worry, there will be lots of money pumped into Tsuruga even if Monju is permanently shut down. These facilities take 25 years to clean up. For whatever it’s worth, I think Kan is a hero. He’s an engineer, he didn’t go to an Ivy League school, and did not inherit his office from his father. His family does not control a large industrial conglomerate, and he’s not married into the kizoku. Just a regular guy trying to fight the nuclear power lobby.

]]> By: apan http://whatjapanthinks.com/2011/08/05/nuclear-power-now-and-10-years-hence/comment-page-1/#comment-246170 Mon, 08 Aug 2011 16:04:28 +0000 http://whatjapanthinks.com/?p=4247#comment-246170 That is my point, Dubai is soaked in riches so far due to oil, thus same goes for the Monju Fast Breeder, not hard to see that lol.
With this clown Kan, I am concerned and playing on peopes fears and stoking the paranoia, and as always we just follow along as sheep and too gutless still to take a stand and tell Kan he is an idiot and that we are important too besides the bubble world you call the Diet lol, there is this Berlin Wall that exists here in Japan folks.

]]> By: Nevin http://whatjapanthinks.com/2011/08/05/nuclear-power-now-and-10-years-hence/comment-page-1/#comment-246169 Mon, 08 Aug 2011 15:46:48 +0000 http://whatjapanthinks.com/?p=4247#comment-246169 The fireworks in Tsuruga really are fantastic, and we do have Nihon Genden to thank for it!

]]> By: apan http://whatjapanthinks.com/2011/08/05/nuclear-power-now-and-10-years-hence/comment-page-1/#comment-246168 Mon, 08 Aug 2011 15:44:25 +0000 http://whatjapanthinks.com/?p=4247#comment-246168 And Mr. Kan is brainless for giving up so easily on nuclear power, Monju is more important than you think, and Tsuruga sits in the riches thanks to Monju and the fireworks at Tsuruga are the result of pure awesomeness! Cannot wait for Mr. Cannot to resign!
Haste makes waste and paranoia and giving up so easily is not the answer folks.

もんじゅうは重要です、敦賀のための豊か！　エネルギーのためにも！かんちゃんはばかたれだな！

]]> By: apan http://whatjapanthinks.com/2011/08/05/nuclear-power-now-and-10-years-hence/comment-page-1/#comment-246011 Sun, 07 Aug 2011 14:58:10 +0000 http://whatjapanthinks.com/?p=4247#comment-246011 Monju is a future generation by the way, ad yes just like oil is doig to dubai, you bet Tsuruga rakes in the cash! Which explains their spiffed up fireworks festival! They are rich dude!

Giving up Monju would not be a smart move and earthquakes almost never happen in Fukui Prefecture interestingly enough except that one 70 years ago! A rarity at that! Western Japan is just lucky!

]]> By: Nevin http://whatjapanthinks.com/2011/08/05/nuclear-power-now-and-10-years-hence/comment-page-1/#comment-245787 Sat, 06 Aug 2011 03:27:25 +0000 http://whatjapanthinks.com/?p=4247#comment-245787 I lived in Fukui for the most part since 1995, all of it in Tsuruga, which is a nuclear power town. It would be interesting to see where the Fukui surveys were sent; there are, generally speaking, two geographic regions in Fukui, Reinan (Tsuruga and Wakasa Bay, where the reactors are) and Reihoku (the main urban center of Fukui, and home to about 750,000 people).

Like everywhere else in Japan, regional identity is strong – the two regions have totally different dialects (Tsuruga resembles Kansai dialect, Obama resembles Kyoto dialect, while Fukui proper resembles Tohoku dialect). As a result, people don’t really intermingle, and Tsuruga and the Wakasa region is out of sight, and out of mind. Despite the fact that the prefecture receives significant revenues as a result of nuclear power, people in the northern, more populous part of the prefecture (until Fukushima) probably never gave nuclear power much thought.

People in northern Fukui don’t commute to the plants to work, and most of the service-providers are located in Tsuruga (Mihama, Obama, Takahama and Oi have received very few meaningful and sustainable economic benefits from the plants) or Kansai.

So, basically, it’s actually quite important to find out where the surveys were sent.

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