Impact of Japan Nuclear Disaster upon World's Energy Mix

An earthquake with a magnitude of 9.0 hit the east coast of Houshu Island,Japan,on March.11th,2011.It caused a severe tsunami,which induced leakage of nuclear power station and then further changed the energy mix in Japan.Many countries around the world started to reconsider the safety of nuclear power and possible changes in energy framework of the world could be expected in a foreseeable future.Damages and losses from Japan nuclear accident The earthquake and tsunami almost paralyzed Japan’s whole nuclear power sector.Power stations of other kinds of energy forms such as coal and oil were also suffered from great loss.However,most stations with gas as the fuel were still