after leaving office, he made it his mission to ridder japan of nuclear energy, four other prime ministers inclinable the influential have since joined him. the movement he helped build has forced all of japan's 50 reactors off line, but that success has come with a price. >> the sudden shock has driven up electricity prices. and japan has a trade deficit for the fist time in decades due to massive imports of fossil fuels. >> nuclear was about 30% of the total electricity supply by the electric power companies. that is gone now. they went scrambling to replace that. in order to avoided blackouts and brown outs. by firing up coal lng, and to a lesser extent oil fired thermal plants. a japanese energy policy expert at the university of tokyo says japan's national security is at stake. >> the national security reasons basically stem from jay ban's overreliance on fossil fuels because it has no viable natural resources of its own to increase dealing with it's economic demand for electric power. consequencely the industry would like to see these get on line. >> japan's nuclear industry has moun