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Fukushima was the latest but hardly the only incident. One of them caused fallout all across Europe. Hint: it was just occupied by Russian forces.
by nautilius 5y ago
Fukushima was the latest but hardly the only incident. One of them caused fallout all across Europe. Hint: it was just occupied by Russian forces.
- panick21_ 5y agoYeah because what happened 40+ years ago with Soviet Union military technology is totally what should guide current day policy because they both have 'nuclear' in the name.
- rectang 5y agoWhat hasn't changed are the disproportionate consequences should disaster strike, and the emergent tendencies of energy utilities towards corruption, incompetence, and corner cutting. Eventually somebody running a plant will screw up, and when they do, the harm will be worse than a wind tower falling over.
- nautilius 5y agoYou're replying to a post that lists Fukushima.
- Ygg2 5y agoChernobyl was like 1980-ies. And there is a huge difference between gross negligence and two simultaneous natural disasters.
- nautilius 5y agoNot in terms of how it motivates leaving nuclear power. If anything, it shows that it happens, due to vastly different causes, no matter how apparently impossible.
- Ygg2 5y agoThe nuclear plants were closed in response Fukushima, not their perceived danger. Plus Germany's car industry is joined at the hip with ICE. If you waved a magic wand and made Germany's car industry electric hundreds of highly specialized parts for internal combustion engines. https://www.wired.co.uk/article/germany-electric-vehicles-europe https://www.wired.co.uk/article/germany-electric-vehicles-eu...
- nautilius 5y agoI’m trying to understand what you’re trying to say, but I can’t. Nuclear is shut down because of some platonic ideal of what ‘Fukushima’ may mean, and not by their perceived threat? And German car manufacturers building ICE has what relation to that? And then you swivel to electric cars? Edit: Removed snark.
- Ygg2 5y agoHow is it hard to comprehend? German government decided to shut down nuclear power plant in response to protests after Fukushima disaster.
- nautilius 5y agoI'm confused about the completely unrelated and nonsensical second part of your post. Also, your statement that it is in response to Fukushima, but somehow not about the perceived danger of nuclear power, makes no sense.
- loeg 5y agoAnd the RBMK reactors are a 1950s design.
- nautilius 5y agoThank god. Finally someone proved that nuclear is safe and no accidents can happen.