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Re:Germany to close all of its coal-fired power plants over ... by Fej on Friday August 16, 2019 @02:39AM (#20712707)
> fucked up the whole northern Pacific

What now? The death toll from the Fukushima Daiichi failure is: up to 1.

> We still don't have a long-term storage solution for the nuclear waste produced by the power plants

Yes, we do. Put it in the side of a mountain. Nuclear waste has always been a political problem, not a technical one. The US already has a site picked, Yucca Mountain, and only NIMBYism has gotten in the way.

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Re:Germany to close all of its coal-fired power plants over ... by lispm on Friday August 16, 2019 @04:34AM (#20713236)
> Nuclear waste has always been a political problem,

Actually all energy production has/creates 'political problems'. One has to deal with those, too. Otherwise claimed technical solutions will fail in the real world.

> not a technical one.

I don't believe that for a second. This is the overly optimistic view of technocrats or the industry.

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Re:Germany to close all of its coal-fired power plants over ... by adrianN on Friday August 16, 2019 @03:16AM (#20712854)
Don't forget the people who died because of the evacuation.
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