Japan’s greenhouse gas
emissions for the year ended March 31 rose 3.9 percent from the prior year on
the increased use of fossil fuels in power plants after
the Fukushima nuclear disaster shut all but two atomic reactors……………. Under the Kyoto Protocol targets
set in 1997, Japan committed to cut greenhouse gases by 6
percent from 1990 in the term from 2008 to 2012 when the first Protocol target
period expires. …….The ministry said that taking into account the absorption of
carbon dioxide by forests and credits earned for offsets outside the country,
Japan cut emissions in 2008 through 2011 by an average 9.2 percent. “It is not impossible to achieve the goal” of
a 6 percent cut, Kentaro Doi, a ministry official in charge of climate change, said at a
press briefing in Tokyo.
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Please also refer to my article
“Is Nuclear CO2” http://fukushimaappeal.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/is-nuclear-really-co2-free.html
According to diagraph in this above
page, carbon dioxide emissions in Japan are increasing despite more and more
nuclear energy being generated (54 reactors in last 45 years). Also they
show that co2 emission decreased in Germany, Denmark, and Sweden. Those
countries have been developing technologies of alternative energy without
relying on building new nuclear power stations for global warming issue……..
Natural uranium contains only
0.7% of Uranium 235, which is used as a nuclear
power fuel, so it has to go through a long process of mining, refining,
transporting, concentrating, and making it into pellets. Storing and
keeping the spent fuel rods cool for so
many years , and using very large thick concrete walls for building the nuclear
power stations – all of these processes rely on other energy sources unless there is
another nuclear power station nearby (and there
usually isn’t.). Strictly speaking it doesn’t
produce CO2 only when electricity is generated.
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