New Japanese reactor projects face formidable headwinds: - Increasing efficiency and shrinking population (long term shrinking electricity demand) - Intense p

New Japanese reactor projects face formidable headwinds: - Increasing efficiency and shrinking population (long term shrinking electricity demand) - Intense public resistance in the wake of Fukushima - Should public resistance wane, there are dozens of functional but presently idled reactors that could restart faster than you can build and pay off a new reactor