Kyushu Electric Power Co., the monopoly power supplier to Japan’s southwestern island of Kyushu, will spend 540 billion yen ($5.9 billion) to build a third nuclear reactor at its Sendai station.
The Fukuoka City-based utility today submitted a proposal to the governments of Satsuma Sendai City and Kagoshima Prefecture, the company said in a statement filed to the Tokyo Stock Exchange. Construction of the 1,590-megawatt reactor is slated to begin in 2013 and operations will start by March 2020.
– from bloomberg. 8 Jan 2009
Nuclear power is not a renewable source of power. It will not save environment from global warming. It produce more CO2 if we compare total CO2 emission from mining to disposal.
Nuclear power is the most ridiculous, dangerous, costly and wasteful way to boil water ever undertaken.