IT WAS A FUCKING EARTHQUAKE!!

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[freethinker3161]

even if it melts down, it would be like a dirty bomb, not Hiroshima. it's all about cost benefit. i think your overreacting big time to this. it's generally a safe way to get energy. there is not much you can do about a 8.9 earthquake.

[smpunditz]

@freethinker3161 if WW2 was fought today what do you think would be the main target of bombers? I know this is an extreme example in our current political climate but we don't know what things will be like 20 years from now. Of course it's about cost benefit but nuclear reactors are major liabilities. The chances of a reactor meltdown are admittedly low but the costs are not to be understated.

[TheCrappyPhilosopher]

Nuclear plants can't be "potential Hiroshimas", because the fuel they use is not weapons grade.

[smpunditz]

@TheCrappyPhilosopher 'little potential Hiroshimas' I wasn't being literal.

[thergonomic]

Just a thing. The Chornobyl Disaster can not happen againt in western nuclear power plants, only in russians (since The Sunny Father blessed everything that the Soviet engineers created). The power plants are safe even in the event of a full blown core meltdown thanks to core catchers and other safety mesures. So stop sweating around they are safe.

[HentaiGaiJin]

Coal and oil are just as bad, they just kill you more slowly. When are we going to smarten up and start putting more money into solar and geothermal power and hydrogen cars?

[gamesmaster35]

@Bicthslave They are pipe dreams because people won't go and refine them.The sun is everywhere!You have some places that are plentiful in wind, or geothermal activity.But for the last 30 years instead of investing in the research to develope these technologies so that they could be ready by now they give the same tired excuse essentially "it won't solve ALL the problem".No one thing is going to get us out of this mess it's going to be a combination of solutions.

[gamesmaster35]

@smpunditz not to mention what to do with the waste.It will take thousands of years for this stuff to be safe enough for people to be around.The longest standing buildings we currently have as human beings is the pyramids you need something with twice the staying power of that to house this stuff and find a way so that future generations that may have whole new languages will know to stay the fuck way from it .Sorry I just don't see the appeal.

[bocckoka]

It was the 4th largest tsunami in recorded history. And coal plants have a higher radioactive output in normal operation than nuclear plants (in normal operation). Nuclear still worth it I think, if we insist to consume as much energy as we do now.

[SloppyLarry]

LOL I still don't know how I feel about these facilities! I really think this issue should at lease be addressed in an open forum with top scientist to help with peoples concerns. I truely think we need to start moving on the path of alternative energy.

[Bicthslave]

@smpunditz it may have been an "fucking earthquake" but sooner or later we will NEED Nuclear power. Because windpower and such are just pipe dreams and fussion is still being tested and is a long way from being used as a long term energy sourse.

[greycloud24]

we now can track fault lines and risk zones for earthquakes with much greater precision than when the facilities in japan were built. if we had something that was as clean as nuclear power and as efficient than i would agree. but the few things that are cannot be built in as many different areas as nuclear facilities. and even these few natural power plants are incapable of producing the power generated in nuclear facilities.

[dominictemple]

Dude, this should convince you that nuclear plants are brilliant. Yes it was an earthquake, the biggest recorded in history which was then followed by a tsunami on a forty year old plant that exploded.

What's the result? 2 dead by drowning and a 2 dozen with physical injuries from the earthquake and two people taken to hospital for no lethal radiation treatment.

Check out environmentalist George Monbiot's blog where he talks about the actual evidence or even xkcd com/radiation

[dechha1981]

If I lived near the Australian Bush, I'd be worried about ANY building made of flamable material near my house, never mind a bloody fireworks factory.

A Nuclear Power Plant in an Earthquake area is a little more worrying than a Fireworks factory. Fireworks just explode and eventually stop burning.