Nuclear power is the fastest way to slash greenhouse gas emissions, decarbonize

Re:Nuclear power is the fastest way to slash greenhouse gas ... by Jaepa on Saturday April 06, 2019 @08:42PM (#19594009)

Woah. Take it easy mate.

To be clear there is no "safe" option. But this 60+ year old nuclear facility survived the 4th largest earthquake in record history, a tsunami, and only failed because the placements of the back, back up generators. Other plants (e.g. the Onagawa Nuclear Power Plan) that were closer to the epicenter survived just fine.

Old outdate plants aren't perfect, but even still its better than the guaranteed best case scenario for fossil fuels.

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Re:Nuclear power is the fastest way to slash greenhouse gas ... by Tomte on Sunday April 07, 2019 @04:19AM (#19595545)

> survived the 4th largest earthquake in record history, a tsunami,

You make it sound like this is unbelievably improbable. Like "multiply the probabilities of an earthquake and a tsunami".

In fact, this is a prime example for a common cause failure.

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Re:Nuclear power is the fastest way to slash greenhouse gas ... by Jaepa on Friday April 12, 2019 @02:13AM (#19642419)

I was referring to the amount of abuse it took, not the likely hood of the events.

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