Noda’s nuclear phase-out is not final word

Cabinet offers only qualified endorsement of Tokyo’s long-term energy strategy to phase out nuclear power before 2040, saying the policy should be implemented “flexibly”

Japan is to phase out nuclear power before 2040, the government said on Friday, the first formal decision to retreat from atomic energy since the Fukushima disaster

Japan is in deep serious trouble the moment it enters a sustainable period of negative or neutral current account balances. If Japan becomes dependent foreigners to finance rollovers on its debt either the Yen sinks or interest rates rise. Interest rates at a mere 3% would currently consumer all of Japan's tax revenue. Japan’s Fiscal Pressure Intensifies

By NEIG:We expect Japanese policymakers to announce the long-term energy policy shortly. Among other attributes, the new policy would set the goal for the share of nuclear power in Japan's future energy mix. The decision is likely to have a lasting impact not only on Japanese society, but also on the global nuclear energy market (see more details).

BERN, Switzerland (AP) -- Swiss lawmakers approved a proposal Wednesday to phase out the use of nuclear power, a move spurred by election-year politics and growing skepticism over the use of atomic energy....

Despite the 11 March nuclear debacle at Japan’s Fukushima nuclear power complex, Nigeria is determined to press forward with its nuclear power agenda. On 15 September Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan formally inaugurated Nigeria's Atomic Energy Commission and urged its members to quickly evolve plans and timelines for Nigerian atomic energy.

Iran said on Saturday that its first nuclear power plant will resume work early May, a day after the facility's Russian contractor acknowledged reloading the fuel in the plant."We hope that the Bushehr power plant reaches critical phase between May 5 and 10," Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi, who previously headed the Islamic republic's atomic body, was quoted as saying by Fars news agency.He said the fuel supplied by Moscow was "removed from the reactor's core, was washed... and as of yesterday it was reloaded".