Japan’s Two Incompatible Power Grids Make Disaster Recovery Harder

The huge disaster in Japan has ruined parts of the nation’s electrical system, notably the six Fukushima Daiichi reactors that remain shut down. As a result, the country’s utilities can’t generate enough power to meet demand, so they are using rolling blackouts to give some power to everyone for some portion of each day.

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Japan’s Two Incompatible Power Grids Make Disaster Recovery Harder