Re:Why Germans remain so jittery about nuclear power
by marax27 on Tuesday January 11, 2022 @08:01AM
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> If a nuclear power plant seriously fails (2 accidents in 70 years) nobody and their nephew's nephew's will be able to live in that area.
People do live near Fukushima power plant. Regarding one of the nearby towns, Ōkuma: "In April 2019, parts of the town were deemed to have been successfully decontaminated, with residents allowed to return to these areas. [...] The actual population resident in the town was 2578 people". [1]
> If a dam fails at least that ground is not lost forever.
Relocating population for good is very much the case when it comes to dam _building_. [2]
Nuclear power does have pros and cons, but let's stop with fearmongering.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%8Ckuma,_Fukushima
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_flooded_towns_in_the_U...
* Most countries have to import uranium exactly as they have to import oil. They don't have to import sun and wind.
* If a nuclear power plant seriously fails (2 accidents in 70 years) nobody and their nephew's nephew's will be able to live in that area. If a dam fails at least that ground is not lost forever.
* Building, managing and eventually decommissioning a nuclear power plant has its own CO2 impact if we do it using fossil fuels.
This is a fair assessment IMHO: https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/nuclear/nuclear-power-an...