Nuclear Energy Dependency
The earthquake and tsunami has brought upon severe issues with nuclear reactors in Japan, their safety and viability. The world awaits if a possible catastrophe is about to unfold and the population be further devastated. At least the population around Chernobyl was not as large as this, so one has to pray or something. However, the question has to be asked and is being asked. Given the population of Japan and its limited energy resources what can it do with regards to the availability of it and to maximise energy efficiency when geographically the incidents of earthquakes is always going to be a threat at this sort of level. The statistics of one in a hundred year event is suddenly becoming more regular than that and so all forms of energy sourcing for Japan is at high risk. Refineries are on fire as well so this applies to carbon and non-carbon fuels. With the plate tectonics mainly to the East of the islands of Japan it would seem to make more sense to source energy as far away ...