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I'm not sure I'd recommend Japan give up nuclear. Their horrible track record just means that their nuclear plants are single order of magnitude safer than the

I'm not sure I'd recommend Japan give up nuclear. Their horrible track record just means that their nuclear plants are single order of magnitude safer than their coal plans, rather than the normal 2 or 3.

illumen 11y ago
Coal is terrible, but it's not the only alternative. Nor is coal the cheapest alternative.
- Symmetry 11y ago
  Oil is also up there in the low single digit deaths per gigawatt-year and oil and coal are what Japan replaced all their nuclear power generation with after Fukushima.