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...an old, deprecated design which had been mismanaged was struck by both an earthquake and a tidal wave, and no one died from the power plant failing. Meanwhi
by zdragnar 3y ago
...an old, deprecated design which had been mismanaged was struck by both an earthquake and a tidal wave, and no one died from the power plant failing.
Meanwhile, coal kills tens of thousands every year from pollution, windmills kill engineers and maintenance workers, and shoddy solar installs and battery banks set fire to buildings.
Nuclear is far from perfect, but Fukushima is a terrible example of the dangers of nuclear power.
- nl 3y agoBut all nuclear power plants get old - it's the only way they can make the huge up front costs work. And it seems every single technology proposed by nuclear advocates is rapidly deprecated. Notably replacement designs are almost all completely experimental.
- eropple 3y agoA lot of why they're "experimental" is that large industrialized countries (especially but not exclusively the United States) decided to stop making them long enough for multiple generations of theoretical designs to pass by.
- zdragnar 3y agoYou say this like it is a bad thing. Even this old, mismanaged plant had zero attributable deaths after what was basically the worst case scenario.