Nuclear-free Japan braces for severe power shortages
A protester holds a sign at a march appealing to the Japanese government to put an end to nuclear power in Tokyo May, 5, 2012. Japan shuts down its last working nuclear power reactor this weekend just over a year after a tsunami scarred the nation and if it survives the summer without major electricity shortages, producers fear the plants will stay offline for good.
TOKYO (Reuters) - The shutdown of Japan's last working nuclear power plant and the government's failure to convince a wary public about restoring production at dozens of reactors leaves the world's third largest economy facing another summer of severe power shortages.
Credit: Reuters/Kim Kyung-Hoon
Leika Kihara
TOKYO
Sun May 6, 2012 4:56am EDT
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