82% of Japanese want off nuclear power

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Onibaka said:

Actually Japan grew up with hydropower. They can't use more of it because they actually already utilizes all their relevant waterfalls.

Thermal power is the main energy matrix for Japan(with nuclear power a little behind).

Yeah, it's true. AFAIK big part of them are pumped-storage power plants though, relatively small and costly. At this point Japanese industry won't survive on hydropower.

Though I wasn't aware that thermal energetics still that big in Japan, was expecting nuclear and thermal power plants capacities  to be somewhere at  50 and 30% respectively of total capacity, which seems to be quite the opposite. They're importing fuel from the Near East I assume? Anyways nuclear energy still the most safe way (in all regards) for Japan to develop it's energetics.