Japan Joins the Race for Uranium Amid Global Expansion of Nuclear Power

japanfocus.org by Hisane Masaki | Mar. 22, 2009 (News Report)

Energy-hungry Japan is revving up its drive to secure uranium abroad as global demand for nuclear power rises amid stubbornly high oil and gas prices and growing environmental concerns. Major Japanese trading and energy firms are looking at multibillion yen investments in uranium mine projects, with electronics conglomerate Toshiba in February purchasing Westinghouse, the US power plant arm of British Nuclear Fuels, for about US$5.4 billion. Full Story »

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Subjects: World, Business, Sci/Tech
Topics: Nuclear Weapons, Japan, Energy, Nuclear Power
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Posted by: Posted by Mike LaBonte - Mar 22, 2009 - 8:28 PM PDT
Reviewed by: Mike LaBonte (review), Kyle Foglio (review)
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Edited by: Mike LaBonte - Mar 23, 2009 - 12:13 PM PDT

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Mike LaBonte
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 by Mike LaBonte - Mar. 22, 2009

This is loaded with information, covering many sides of the issue. Much of the information is from 2006, so it misses the uranium price run up to $135 in 2007, although prices are now back down to where the story has them.

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Kyle Foglio
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 by Kyle Foglio - Feb. 25, 2010

Yes, Because not only did they see from many views put into the writing. There is also a bunch of pictures and other kinds of information to things that are sub topics within the main one.

Japan has many high power needing buildings complexes and machines throughout it. It is good that they are actually finding the way to make the power, but the waste could prove a future problem.

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