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Nuclear is the best option on paper but a serious look at Fukushima needs to occur and be addressed first. In all discussions about pros and cons Fukushima is
by roody15 5y ago
Nuclear is the best option on paper but a serious look at Fukushima needs to occur and be addressed first. In all discussions about pros and cons Fukushima is conveniently left out of the discussion or drastically minimized.
Fukushima happened. We still do not contain the technology to fully stop the melted reactors. The price tag is in the billions and continues to rise in containment. The geographic loss of land use is massive. Even Chernobyl reactor continues to spew radiation and make the land inhabitable.
Until we can build reactors that can be fully shutdown and contained I think nuclear is still a no go (IMO)
- redis_mlc 5y agoNote that Japan couldn't deal with Fukushima on their own. American nuclear experts stepped in and prioritized solving the two main emergencies, the plant failures and the less obvious storage ponds rapidly evaporating into more explosions. American experts used drones ASAP, and then relayed their analysis to the Japanese operators. (I believe the US used their military relationship to inject themselves into the crisis without the usual diplomatic process. The Japanese PM was directly involved (he forbid a suggested plant evacuation), so it could have been via him.)