WEAI Professor David Weinstein was quoted in a recent Forbes article, “Shutting Down All of Japan’s Nuclear Plants After Fukushima Was A Bad Idea.” After the 2011 tsunami and earthquake, Japan closed its nuclear plants and increased energy imports of coal, oil, and gas, fossil fuels that have contributed adversely to country’s environment and citizens’ health. In the article, Weinstein is quoted as saying, “If Japan had decided to keep all [unaffected] nuclear reactors open in 2012 and had met its energy needs by proportionally reducing coal, oil, LNG and other energy sources, I estimate that this policy would have saved 9,493 lives based on the air pollution of that year alone.”
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