(Moved from http://greattohokurevival.blogspot.com/2011/06/fukushimas-choice-exploration-of-why.html , 2011-7-3)
Fifty years ago, villages along Fukushima Prefecture's coast decided to bid on Tokyo Electric Power Company's solicitation for sites to host its first nuclear power plant. Last Wednesday, almost a hundred days into its struggle to cope with one of histories biggest earthquakes, one of its biggest tsunamis, and its biggest nuclear energy accident, Fukushima's Recovery Commission decided to eliminate Fukushima's dependence on nuclear energy.