Japan without nuclear power for first time in forty years

Thousands of Japanese citizens marched to celebrate the last of the nation's more than 50 nuclear reactors switching off Saturday, shaking banners shaped as giant fish that have become a potent anti-nuclear symbol. Japan will be without electricity from nuclear power for the first time in four decades when the last reactor goes offline for routine maintenance checks. After last year's March 11 quake and tsunami set off meltdowns at Fukushima Dai-ichi plant, no reactor stopped for checkups has restarted amid growing public worries about the safety of nuclear technology.