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Re:Belgium stops decommissioning nuclear power plants by mpweiher on Thursday April 30, 2026 @11:02AM (#47963583)
The Fukushima plants were completely destroyed by the meltdowns and subsequent Hydrogen explosions that were caused by the Tsunami.

There was never any chance of "restarting" them, so not sure why you brought that up.

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Re:Belgium stops decommissioning nuclear power plants by cogman10 on Thursday April 30, 2026 @11:05AM (#47963631)
Because I'm confused at to what the

> On the contrary

was about. Contrary to what?

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Re:Belgium stops decommissioning nuclear power plants by mpweiher on Thursday April 30, 2026 @12:02PM (#47964487)
Contrary to your claim Japan is not shutting down its nuclear reactors. It is restarting them.
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Re:Belgium stops decommissioning nuclear power plants by cogman10 on Thursday April 30, 2026 @12:21PM (#47964768)
Not a claim I made.
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Re:Belgium stops decommissioning nuclear power plants by snarkconjecture on Thursday April 30, 2026 @02:43PM (#47966613)
> These reactors can be made safer, but they all still have a foundational design flaw which means the ultimate goal should be replacing rather than continually spending money reinforcing.

This was about the Fukushima reactors that were completely destroyed? In response to a discussion of Belgian reactors that are completely different?

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