... May 2011. An earthquake in the northeast of Japan with a magnitude of 9.0 on the Richter scale caused a tsunami, which hit the nuclear reactor. The ten meter wave destroyed the coolant systems and caused a knock on effect, which started with an overheating and ended with the explosion of the reactor blocks one to four and led to the release of radioactivity into ... that lasts until 2022 and the target of reaching an amount of 85% of renewable energy by 2050 contains a lot of variables and involves a variety of changes. The U.S. energy policy analyst Peter Sopher calls it "by far the mo...

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