A STUDY THAT WAS HELD HIDDEN: JAPAN COULD SURVIVE COMPLETELY WITHOUT NUCLEAR POWER - NO POWER SHORTAGES ON SUMMER 2012

A study was made by the Japanese government last autumn that clearly showed that Japan can manage without nuclear energy next summer (2012). The study was not published, though. So the nuclear power companies had free hands to ask for permission to restart the idling NPP:s. It put pressure on local authorities to accept restarting of the nuclear plants because the common belief was that without restarting the reactors Japan would suffer of lack of electricity and the disaster-crippled economi would have suffered more of this extra power shortage.

Now the information of this study was published by Mainichi:

http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/news/20120123p2a00m0na007000c.html