And we want to get the world's attention focused where we think it needs to be, with these continuing efforts by al Qaida and others to get just enough nuclear material to cause terrible havoc, destruction and loss of life."

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He said multiple mechanisms existed to prevent the theft or loss of nuclear material.

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Sigmar Gabriel, the Social Democratic environment minister, insists that energy conservation and renewables can make up for the loss of nuclear power.

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Meanwhile, the weaker yen means higher costs for rising imports of natural gas, which is priced in dollar terms, to help compensate for the loss of nuclear power generation capacity after most atomic power plants remain closed after the 2011 disaster at the Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear plant in northeastern Japan.

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