The Monitor's Weekly News Quiz for March 16-23, 2012
Observers say Japan could become the first industrial society to enter the postnuclear age: The two plants still running will be shut down by the end of April. All plants must undergo new government-mandated stress tests before reopening, none of which have been completed. Meanwhile northern Japan – the same area hit last year – was struck by what scientists characterized as a magnitude 6.8 aftershock from the March 2011 earthquake. No injuries were reported.
Observers say Japan could become the first industrial society to enter the postnuclear age: The two plants still running will be shut down by the end of April. All plants must undergo new government-mandated stress tests before reopening, none of which have been completed. Meanwhile northern Japan – the same area hit last year – was struck by what scientists characterized as a magnitude 6.8 aftershock from the March 2011 earthquake. No injuries were reported.
Observers say Japan could become the first industrial society to enter the postnuclear age: The two plants still running will be shut down by the end of April. All plants must undergo new government-mandated stress tests before reopening, none of which have been completed. Meanwhile northern Japan – the same area hit last year – was struck by what scientists characterized as a magnitude 6.8 aftershock from the March 2011 earthquake. No injuries were reported.
Observers say Japan could become the first industrial society to enter the postnuclear age: The two plants still running will be shut down by the end of April. All plants must undergo new government-mandated stress tests before reopening, none of which have been completed. Meanwhile northern Japan – the same area hit last year – was struck by what scientists characterized as a magnitude 6.8 aftershock from the March 2011 earthquake. No injuries were reported.
1. Before the tsunami one year ago, Japan had 54 nuclear power plants providing 30 percent of the country's electricity. How many plants are on line today?
An employee of Kansai Electric Power Co. speaks to a reporter before an International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) news conference January 2012. (Issei Kato/Reuters)
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