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Re:Germany extends lifetime of all 3 remaining nuclear plants by fsh on Monday October 17, 2022 @04:25PM (#33239087)
The Fukushima reactors and a lot of the german ones were built by the same company. They overlooked the flood risk on the japanese coast (which has huge tsunamis every few decades). What did they overlook elsewhere? After Chernobyl, politicians promised that western reactors could not possibly explode. Fukushima proved them wrong.
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Re:Germany extends lifetime of all 3 remaining nuclear plants by anton96 on Monday October 17, 2022 @04:35PM (#33239192)
No, Fukushima proved them right.

Fukushima ended in no way like Tchernobyl did.

The Soviet power plan released radioactivity in the air, make an entire area inhabitable and killed a few dozen a people.

Fukushima did nothing of this, everything stayed inside the structure, no radioactivity went out.

As Fukushima had no recovery generators available (no fuel in them), it is a great proof that a totally out of control modern power plant is not deadly.

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Re:Germany extends lifetime of all 3 remaining nuclear plants by fsh on Monday October 17, 2022 @05:29PM (#33239756)
The Fukushima disaster cleanup cost a trillion dollars. Over a hundred thousand people were (at least temporarily) displaced. I would call this a pretty darn big failure.
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Re:Germany extends lifetime of all 3 remaining nuclear plants by Schroedingersat on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @01:22AM (#33243255)
The trillion dollar figure is a bit of a stretch and includes a lot of stuff that didn't need to happen or was double counted.

Less motivated reasoning gives about $300bn which would still be enough to easily replace every coal and oil plant in the country with renewables (as well as half of the gas).

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Re:Germany extends lifetime of all 3 remaining nuclear plants by evilos on Monday October 17, 2022 @06:06PM (#33240118)
Comparing Fukushima to Chernobyl is not really justified

Chernobyl: Core meltdown and catastrophic explosion of entire reactor. Caused by gross negligence when safety system disabled. Direct deaths: <100 Estimated indirect deaths: 4 to 16 thousand

Fukushima: Caused by 4th largest earthquake in history. No core explosion. Hydrogen explosion destroyed non structural part of building (this was by design). Core meltdown but largely contained. Contamination of air/water from venting to atmosphere. Direct deaths: 1 employee died of cancer Estimated indirect deaths: 300-2000

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