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CNN (May 7)

2012/ 05/ 08 by jd in Global News

“As Japan began its workweek Monday morning, the trains ran exactly on time, the elevators in thousands of Tokyo high rises efficiently moved between floors, and the lights turned on across cities with nary a glitch.” But it wasn’t a normal Monday. Japan’s last operating nuclear reactor had shut down. “For the first time in four decades, none of the energy on this working day is derived from a nuclear reactor.”

 

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