Re:U.S. Reenters the Nuclear Fuel Game
by unglaublich on Wednesday November 15, 2023 @04:41AM
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Re:U.S. Reenters the Nuclear Fuel Game
by ViewTrick1002 on Wednesday November 15, 2023 @05:17AM
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Then we can discount all people being hurt from falls when building solar plants because the panels themselves did not kill them, they just did not follow OSHA regulations!
Solar = 0.0!
Why don't we abolish the Price–Anderson Nuclear Industries Indemnity Act and see how far nuclear gets when having to pay the true cost of their insurance?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price%E2%80%93Anderson_Nuclear...
Are you implying that if there was no Nuclear plant in Fukushima, the Tsunami would not have happened, or the people living there wouldn't have been needed to be evacuated?
Re:U.S. Reenters the Nuclear Fuel Game
by hef19898 on Wednesday November 15, 2023 @07:01AM
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Tsunami? Yes. Evacuatiom due a nuclear melt down of a non-existing nuclear power plant? I don't know, but maybe not.
Re:U.S. Reenters the Nuclear Fuel Game
by stjohnswarts on Wednesday November 15, 2023 @12:22PM
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Show me a general solar or wind solution that works just about anywhere that is guaranteed to have at least 1 week of back up power when the power takes a nose dive during extreme weather or even just when the wind/solar dips, even 1 day would be a great improvement over what we have now. I would be onboard with solar/wind all day if this was true.
Re:U.S. Reenters the Nuclear Fuel Game
by demondemidi on Wednesday November 15, 2023 @07:59AM
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The solution is clear. Ban tsunamis.
Re:U.S. Reenters the Nuclear Fuel Game
by natmaka on Wednesday November 15, 2023 @08:38AM
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"In 2012, ex-prime minister Naoto Kan was interviewed about the Fukushima nuclear disaster, and has said that at one point Japan faced a situation where there was a chance that people might not be able to live in the capital zone including Tokyo and would have to evacuate ((...)) If things had reached that level, not only would the public have had to face hardships but Japan's very existence would have been in peril"
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_reaction_to_Fukushima...
Re:U.S. Reenters the Nuclear Fuel Game
by throwaway4aday on Wednesday November 15, 2023 @10:03AM
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An absurd counterfactual. This was assuming a scenario in which Fukushima released a ridiculously high level of radiation, which it didn't, that would necessitate other nuclear power plants to be immediately evacuated with nothing done to shut down their reactors resulting in a "chain reaction" of other plants releasing radiation presumably from the engineers just running away and letting a meltdown take place. Absolute FUD and bullshit since this would be an incredibly irresponsible thing to do and the Japanese people are far too competent and conscientious to enact such a hare brained evacuation.
Stop spreading disinformation please.
Re:U.S. Reenters the Nuclear Fuel Game
by natmaka on Thursday November 16, 2023 @12:19AM
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At the time of the Fukushima disaster no one could assess in real-time, and therefore according to the then-prime minister the worst case scenario was worked on. You can call it 'disinformation' (in other words: 'he is a liar'!) without any source all day, those are hard facts.