The number of nuclear stations operating varies from month to month but I'll correct myself; this news just in:
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/20111125_09.html
The question whether they have replaced or will replace some of this with gas and coal is another matter but reports from last summer (there was not enough time to get the Russian gas) suggest that people were told what to do because there would be a shortage and they did. And energy was and is being saved. My in-laws themselves did turn down the knobs and, as far as I know, so did a large percentage of the Japanese population.
In the face of THAT immediate unexpected short-term disaster, people work shoulder to shoulder.
But in the face of an even greater long-term global energy / environmental threat?
The clock keeps ticking.
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