Talk:Nuclear power in Japan

Looking good

Would be good to have a section on hydrogen production (which is briefly mentioned in lead). And lead section could be expanded to include discussion of some of the major organizations mentioned later on. -- Johnfos 09:55, 10 July 2007 (UTC)

I don't really know what kinds of research in terms of hydrogen research is going on in Japan right now. That certainly is deserving to add in the context of "Hydrogen production may allow nuclear power to expand beyond electrical energy," which is what I was trying to do. Other than that, it may appear on the JAEA page or something as one of their research topics, and that's about the extent to which I planned on expanding it.

Oh, and I think some sort of Table that lists the larger power stations is needed. -- Johnfos 10:15, 10 July 2007 (UTC)

I agree that a table of power stations would be a good addition, but I've been meandering as to how this can be done without messing anything else up at List of nuclear reactors#Japan. The editors there are (understandably) skeptical of any attempt to migrate the information to a different place. I raised the issue on the talk page, but haven't seen any response yet. -Theanphibian ^{(talk • contribs)} 17:16, 10 July 2007 (UTC)

My anticipated expansions

Firstly, there needs to be some more history before the 1950s. Some copy edits from the Japanese atomic program would serve this purpose well. I think it also might be a little unclear what was happening in those first 4 years (before construction started on the first plant) and in the 60s and 70s (I think that Japan generated something like 2% of its electricity from nuclear at that time). This misrepresentation is mainly due to sources that are just attempting to glorify the subject with the feeling of "Japan got RIGHT into the development of nuclear power," when the reality is that nuclear didn't fill a significant part of the energy pie until into the 80s. I don't know how to say that yet, and will probably return to it later.

Also, if Wikipedia was a hierarchy, this article would be here: Japan -> Economy of Japan -> Energy in Japan -> Nuclear power in Japan

Of course, I've neglected to do any work with Energy in Japan, but some of the information I gathered should be easily movable. Sub-articles work well in this case. Eventually, I hope that the articles on Japanese utilities can be expanded to include that one that was the ONLY utility in the first part of the 20th century, and then the ones that preceded that one in the 1800s. Once we have that, it should tie in very well with a summary on the history of electricty in Japan and the rest of the economic history.

I'm also slightly troubled by the article that are missing on the Japanese Wikipedia, in particular:

• Nuclear Safety Commission
• Atomic Energy Society of Japan
• Atomic Fuel Corporation
• Nuclear Fuel Industries

All have links point to them, but still don't exist as articles. Nor do they have an article that equates to "Nuclear power in Japan," which is also slightly troubling. -Theanphibian ^{(talk • contribs)} 17:16, 10 July 2007 (UTC)

References

hi guys - great work on setting this article up. I'd suggest that further in-line references. For example, in the intro it is stated that nuclear power (presumably domestic) provides 30% of Japan's usage, but also, later, that Japan imports 80% of its energy. I presume that this is down to conflicting sources. —Preceding unsigned comment added by James AL Williams (talk • contribs) 11:25, 4 October 2007 (UTC) -Ah, thank you, sorry for not signing. James AL Williams 11:23, 10 October 2007 (GMT)

Confusion in opening paragraph

The article states that 30% of Japans generated electricity comes from nuclear whilst 80% of Japan's produced or generated 'energy' comes from imported fuel.

I think these two statements are confusing to your average reader. I think the difference needs to be made between electricity and energy to make it more clear.