Japan had faced the most challenging part in their economy after the spate of Tsunami and earthquake last March 2011. The epidemic had rapped Japan’s ultimate source of their energy supply which is the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. The disaster opens the doors for new strategies in conserving and distributing energy supply towards the half of the country’s energy consumers. However, decisions over incidents cost with several arguments in some of Japanese’s legal aspects. It was decided that the nuclear power plant should be closed by the 2040, in which until now is still under series of deliberation (Japan Strives to go Nuclear Free), as the probable solution could affect the country’s economy and growth. Thus, some environmental enthusiasts took their chances in eliminating the nuclear plant as this would be a good opportunity in accessing renewable energy. The Canadian environmentalist named David Suzuki had dealt with the Japan’s government including the private sect in developing the hydroelectric plant as an alternative power source of energy. The hydro-plant had existed along with the nuclear energy plant but in a diminutive percentage as energy consumption (Renewable Energy for Japan: Post Fukushima Quest). Moreover, the strategy for of solar energy as energy source was supported by many of Japan’s environmental enthusiasts including Sweden and Germany; but the plan was grounded with many financial issues due to the outlays of PV materials. Other scholarly studies had pinned out Japan’s strategies in Post Fukushima crisis which are identified thru the following; identify energy sufficiency risks including small back up energy supplies, renewable energy as alternative source and small power grids. The next one is security of costs for other power subsidies, implementation of “feed-in tariff” on energy sources, rebuilding the 10 region’s energy plants and the main nuclear plant and lastly importing geothermal energy supply or petroleum gas as source of energy (Seven Point Plan for Japan’s Energy Strategy Post Fukushima). The loss and the danger of Fukushima power plant resulted in series of deliberation and had garnered a lot of apprehensions in terms of its safety in any possible earthquake incidents in the future. Until now, the Japan’s government is in the middle of this discussion either to pursue the formal elimination of nuclear power system or resume the costly alternative power source in their country.
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