I have been devoting a lot of my blog lately to international affairs and problems with nuclear reactors. While there are important economic, political, public health and environmental issues involving nuclear power, there is another use of nuclear materials that is much more personal. I am talking about the use of radioactive isotopes in treating cancer.
Before the Fukushima disaster in 2011, the Japanese fleet of fifty four nuclear reactors supplied about thirty percent of Japan's electricity. Japan has the third largest number of nuclear power reactors behind France and the United States. After the Fukushima disaster, the entire reactor fleet was shut down and none of the reactors has been put back into full-time operation. This has resulted in a rise in the importation of fossil fuels that has caused a negative trade imbalance.
