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Re:Japan nuclear body says radioactive water at Fukushima an... by marze on Monday August 05, 2013 @02:58PM (#6162115)
Worse case accident for solar:

Ow. I dropped the solar panel on my foot.

For nuclear:

Oops, we destroyed $270B of real estate.

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Re:Japan nuclear body says radioactive water at Fukushima an... by cobrausn on Monday August 05, 2013 @04:04PM (#6162569)
Actual worst case for solar:

Oops, we spent $270B on solar panels that can't provide enough power.

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Re:Japan nuclear body says radioactive water at Fukushima an... by SuperChihuahua on Monday August 05, 2013 @03:07PM (#6162189)
Can solar panels survive an earthquake?
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Re:Japan nuclear body says radioactive water at Fukushima an... by marze on Monday August 05, 2013 @03:21PM (#6162278)
Probably at least as well as the Fukushima reactors did.
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Re:Japan nuclear body says radioactive water at Fukushima an... by meepmorp on Monday August 05, 2013 @04:01PM (#6162546)
To be fair, the reactors survived the earthquake just fine, as well as the tsunami afterward.

The problem is that the diesel generators that were supposed to provide backup power to the cooling systems got swamped, basically making meltdown inevitable with the design of the reactor.

Edit:extraneous words removed

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