Resource - poor Japan has long been interested in tapping Africa's vast natural resources, even more so since dependence on oil and natural gas imports jumped after the 2011 Fukushima
nuclear disaster shut almost all of Japan's nuclear reactors.
Not exact matches
After the Fukushima
nuclear disaster spewed radiation across northern Japan in March, some feared that farming there would be
shut down for years.
Even before the
disaster at Fukushima Daiichi could be brought under control and investigated, Germany earlier this week said it would
shut down seven of its
nuclear power plants built before 1980.
In 2011, it began to burn more after
shutting eight of its
nuclear power stations following the Fukushima
disaster in Japan.
«In the wake of the Fukushima
disaster, Japan
shut down a good deal of its
nuclear reactors — and it looks like coal may be replacing them.