Japan Plans World's Biggest Offshore Wind Farm Near Nuke Disaster Site
InsideClimate News 2013-01-17
Summary:
(New Scientist)
It's goodbye nuclear, hello renewables as Japan prepares to build the world's largest offshore wind farm this July.
By 2020, the plan is to build a total of 143 wind turbines on platforms 16 kilometres off the coast of Fukushima, home to the stricken Daiichi nuclear reactor that hit the headlines in March 2011 when it was damaged by an earthquake and tsunami.