{"id":20309,"date":"2011-07-04T11:08:11","date_gmt":"2011-07-04T15:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=20309"},"modified":"2011-07-04T11:09:52","modified_gmt":"2011-07-04T15:09:52","slug":"wit-life-174-saga-setting-the-nuclear-standard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2011\/07\/04\/wit-life-174-saga-setting-the-nuclear-standard\/","title":{"rendered":"WIT Life #174: Saga Setting the Nuclear Standard"},"content":{"rendered":"

WITLife<\/strong><\/em><\/a> is a periodic series written<\/strong><\/em> by professional Writer\/Interpreter\/Translator <\/strong><\/em>Stacy Smith<\/strong><\/a> <\/em>(Kumamo<\/a><\/strong><\/em>to-ken<\/a> CIR, 2000-03). She starts<\/strong><\/em> her day by watching Fujisankei\u2019s newscast in Japanese, and here she sha<\/strong><\/em>r<\/strong><\/em>es s<\/strong><\/em>ome of the interesting tidbits and trends together with her own observations.<\/strong><\/em>\"\"<\/p>\n

Yesterday’s NYT had an interesting article about Japan’s nuclear policy<\/a> going forward.\u00a0 Increasingly local governments are being depended on to determine this, though they believe these are decisions the central government should be making.\u00a0 Currently the debate is taking place in the rural prefecture of Saga<\/a> located in Kyushu, where battle lines are drawn between nuclear power plant operators who insist their faci<\/strong><\/em>l<\/em>ities are safe and wary citizens.\u00a0 In the middle is Saga governor Yasushi Furukawa who is being looked to for approval or rejection of restarting<\/strong><\/em> two of the four reactors at the plant.\u00a0 After being shut down for routine maintenance, the question is whether they should be turn<\/strong><\/em>ed <\/strong><\/em>back on or not.<\/p>\n

Out of Japan’s total of 54 reactors 35 are now offline, whether due to earthquake\/tsunami damage or maintenance (there is a legal requirement that reactors must be shut down every 13 months for this purpose).\u00a0 The mayor of the city where the plant is located has already given his approval for restart, and Furukawa is seen to be setting the trend for governors throughout the country.\u00a0 Many of these leaders face the same decision of whether to restart reactors in their prefectures, so close attention will be paid to the out<\/strong><\/em>come in Saga.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

WITLife is a periodic series written by professional Writer\/Interpreter\/Translator Stacy Smith (Kumamoto-ken CIR, 2000-03). She starts her day by watching Fujisankei\u2019s newscast in Japanese, and here she shares some of the interesting tidbits and trends together with her own observations. Yesterday’s NYT had an interesting article about Japan’s nuclear policy going forward.\u00a0 Increasingly local governments […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[378,18,1,36,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-earthquake-tsunami","category-translatinginterpreting","category-uncategorized","category-wit-life","category-writers"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t