GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – For a second consecutive day a grid failure is leaving hundreds of millions of people without electricity in India. Delhi, the nation’s capital and major cities such as Kolkata and at least a dozen states have been without power intermittently for two days now. Traffic was thrown out of gear in the [...]
Japanese PM urges nuclear reactors be restarted
June 8, 2012 by
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Japan’s prime minister Yoshihiko Noda says two idle nuclear reactors should be restarted in order to help safeguard the country’s economy. Since last year’s Fukushima nuclear disaster, all of Japan’s 50 nuclear reactors have been offline for maintenance and safety concerns. With the risk of summer power blackouts, the government has urged businesses and households [...]
