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Japan split over restart of first nuclear reactor since Fukushima disaster
- rancur 11y agois 2000 protesters a split? is clickbait?
- owen_griffiths 11y agoJapan's CO2 emissions are up 11% relative to 1990, when they are supposedly planning to go down 21% by 2030. “They’re aware that Japan has fared perfectly well without nuclear power for almost two years.” is not really accurate CO2 into account.
- mrschwabe 11y agoWhich would you prefer floating in our air, CO2 (that plants breathe) or invisible, cancer-causing radioactive particles?
- mistermann 11y agoIf you're genuinely interested, France knows a thing or two about that topic: http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/Country-Profiles/Countries-A-F/France/ http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/Country-Profiles/Countries...
- sliverstorm 11y agoIronically coal plants release invisible, cancer-causing radioactive particles into the air, and nuclear plants generally don't.
- naturalethic 11y agoYour comment is becoming invisible because you are a denier. Suck it contrarian.
- dang 11y agoPlease stop posting uncivil and unsubstantive comments to HN.
- userbinator 11y agoDoes this reactor have better safeguards and protection than the ones at Fukushima? I think that's the most important point to consider here.
- sp332 11y agoI don't think it's about physical safeguards. It's about TEPCO's history of falsifying safety records and not communicating during a disaster.
- Turing_Machine 11y ago"Better safeguards"? 9.0 earthquake. Tsunami. Fire. Complete loss of power to all control systems. Still didn't kill anybody. Just how safe do you expect something to be? By comparison the earthquake and tsunami killed over 18,000 people.
- mistermann 11y ago> Just how safe do you expect something to be? Personally, I expect someone to have at least the foresight to put the backup generators on a platform.
- Turing_Machine 11y agoThere was a ten meter sea wall. The tsunami was 13 meters tall. How many 13 meter tall backup generator platforms have you ever seen?
- mistermann 11y agoI'd like to see one in Japan before they reopen this reactor. Would you argue against that recommendation? A reactor is a billion dollar capital project, I think you can include a "tall" tower into the budget without making it uneconomical.
- Turing_Machine 11y ago
- jpatokal 11y agoToo late: the reactor has been restarted. http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/aug/11/japan-restarts-first-nuclear-reactor-fukushima-disaster http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/aug/11/japan-res... Note that the "Sendai" here is the small town of Satsumasendai in Kagoshima prefecture, Kyushu; not the big city of Sendai north of Tokyo.
- stevedekorte 11y agoIs there a good reason to use nuclear when solar is at cost parity now?
- joshkpeterson 11y agoSome big Japanese companies are in the nuclear technology business, and they export to other countries.