Japan Nuclear Power Plant Technology
Japan has been one of the powerful countries when it comes to energy supply. It is one of the most renowned countries when it comes to the use of nuclear power. Although they were a victim of two nuclear bombings more particularly the World War II bombing in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, they hold no grudge on this particular object since they know that the use of nuclear power could bring them to the top. But they do not necessarily use the nuclear energy for egotistic purposes of becoming one of the most powerful countries when it comes to energy supply. The government of Japan simply wants to improve the quality of life for their citizens and that is a good quality for handling a country. To break down the efficiency of the nuclear energy, stated below are the facts for the nuclear energy.
The nuclear energy of Japan these days have been accounted for almost 30 percent of the total energy production. More specifically, the energy provided by the nuclear power plants would be from 47.5 GWe of capacity (net) from the starting of March 2011, and 44.6 GWe (net) up to today. They even have plans of increasing the power production brought about by nuclear energy from 41 percent by 2017 up to 50 percent by 2030.
However, it is clear that there has been a slump in the record shown earlier. The 3.1 percent of energy that has been lost is due to the crisis that has been happening in the Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant. This particular crisis involves the failure of the cooling systems of the Fukushima I Nuclear Power plant. The 8.9 magnitude earthquake that was detected 80 miles off the coastline of Japan brought about this crisis. Although the distance of the earthquake was quite far from the Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant, the devastation was still felt since it was the strongest earthquake recently recorded.
This is not the first time that Japan experienced this particular crisis though. In 2007, the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant was completely shut down for 21 months due to the devastation of an earthquake. Today, the citizens of Japan are still fighting to prevent a nuclear meltdown in the country and they are still optimistic that they will be able to rise up to this challenge and continue to prosper in the future.