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| Fukushima Nuclear Disaster |
Japan's nuclear crisis has started rubbing on to nuclear programs of other countries. Germany has already announced its plans to close down its nuclear plants by 2022. Italy's people have recently voted to block revival of its nuclear power plants. Italy's nuclearpower plants were shut down by a 1987 referendum after the Chernobyl disaster.
Elsewhere, notably in United States, public pressure on governments to close nuclear plants is also on the rise. There are concerns about safety, social and environmental costs and ambitious civil nuclear plans in the fast growing economies of China and India.
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