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May 5th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda The Tomari nuclear plant on Japan’s northern island of Hokkaido is the last of the 54 nuclear reactors to be switched off this weekend, but it has raised fears of electricity shortages in summer.
Japan managed to escape power cuts last summer, because factories worked weekends and nights, schools were closed and millions of Japanese voluntarily cut electricity use.
The government turned off all reactors for routine maintenance following last year’s twin disasters of earthquake and tsunami but local communities have refused to allow them to be restarted because of safety fears.
The shutdown, which will leave Japan without nuclear power for the first time since 1970, is yet another severe test of public resolve after the Fukushima nuclear disaster caused by last year’s tsunami.
Japan’s atomic crisis broke out on March 11, 2011 after a nine-magnitude earthquake and a subsequent tsunami hit the country’s northeast coast, where the Fukushima nuclear power plant is located.
The quake triggered the nuclear disaster by knocking out power to cooling systems and resulting in reactor meltdowns at the plant.
Before the March 11 disaster, the nuclear reactors provided 30 percent of the country’s electricity and the government had planned to increase the share to more than 50 percent by 2030.
Tokyo has increased its fossil fuel imports, but electricity companies have warned that there could still be a shortage of power in the summer.
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