Switzerland votes against strict timetable for nuclear power phase out

Re:Switzerland votes against strict timetable for nuclear po... by albinofrenchy on Sunday November 27, 2016 @03:53PM (#13051475)

I'm continually shocked at how many people think nuclear reactors are just nuclear bombs one failure from exploding.

The nuclear plants in Switzerland are safer and more efficient than coal power plants.

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Re:Switzerland votes against strict timetable for nuclear po... by akamaka on Sunday November 27, 2016 @05:27PM (#13051981)

We just had a nuclear disaster which is fresh in those people's minds.

To put it into perspective, the Fukushima disaster has made 800000 hectares of land unusable for farming, which is more than the area of land under cultivation in the entire country of Switzerland.

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Re:Switzerland votes against strict timetable for nuclear po... by p1mrx on Sunday November 27, 2016 @05:31PM (#13052001)

> more efficient than coal

How do you compare the efficiency of two systems with dissimilar inputs?

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Re:Switzerland votes against strict timetable for nuclear po... by maushu on Thursday December 08, 2016 @06:51AM (#13129767)

By calculating the price of the input per energy and the effects of the waste generated.

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