Japan is facing an unprecedented energy crisis

Japan is facing its worst energy crisis in its history, following the closure of the 53 nuclear power plants, according to various media. The influential daily Asahi Shimbun said in this respect between the people two anxieties, the fear of nuclear energy security and doubts whether the country can live without it. This Saturday, the Hokkaido Electric Power closed the last of the 50 reactors still functioning after the crisis caused by the earthquake and subsequent tsunami of March 11, 2011. For the paper the question is not only to criticize the government but to influence policy decisions that determine saving and energy production in order to feed the nation. According to reports, the Government of Prime Minister Noda Noshihiro expected this month to define a policy on this issue, including a program of power cuts for the coming summer and energy rationalization. The disaster caused by the quake and tsunami involved serious questions about policy on electricity generation herbal plants and the lack of appropriate decisions in this regard. In the following months, came to light flaws in the security operations of such facilities and the lack of contingency plans, all of which forced the resignation of the previous Government chief Naoto Kan. Dear still inconclusive estimated at more than 300 billion dollars losses, plus more than 30 000 dead and missing, the evacuation of more than 80 thousand people and about four million people affected. For these data bind high levels of contamination in agricultural areas and sea areas around the damaged nuclear power plant in Fukushima, the axis of greatest disaster in the history of Japan.