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One of the main reasons I've been keeping up with the disaster in Japan is the nuclear meltdown. Definately a fascinating topic to read up on, especially the various nuclear accidents that have happened in America and at Chernobyl too. It's good to see those opposed to nuclear energy around the world shift their focuses and pay attention to this, but this could basically be the beginning of the end for it.

Do I think Japan should build nuclear reactors on an active faultline? No. California shouldn't either and they have shit loads there, there's even abandoned and cancelled nuclear plants in California (some with poison waste still there as well) that were given up on because of the cost of stability measures for earthquakes. Plate tectonics aside, Chernobyl and 3 Mile Island aren't even by any faultlines and look at how great those were for nuclear energy.

Maybe this will lead to better things like advancement in the solar/hydroelectric/thermal energy fields of development. Maybe it will lead to even further burning away of fossil fuels as coal and oil fall back into favor. At this point no one can tell the future for nuclear power but it looks bleak.

Fact is that nuclear plants produce a lot of power within a small area, and there are plenty of new and viable technologies that will make them even more efficient.

France and German would be damned without nuclear energy or would be burning a lot of dirty coal. There is plenty of nuclear fuel to be mined and no matter how much people freak about, at one moment they will give in and accept that nuclear power is vital for the maintenance of their life style.

In somewhere like France or Germany, or even the ones here in Ohio, it's not as big of a deal due to the fact it isn't seismically active, and the majority of destructive weather tends to be thunderstorms or blizzards. However, take a place long overdue for a massive earthquake full of nuclear plants like Japan or California (especially in California because I know they didn't prepare for seismic activity like the Japanese did for a fact), and look at what happens. It's just not worth it. Hope California likes nuclear fallout when the San Andreas fault decides to pull a fast one.

In California they're built to withstand a 7.5. In Japan it was 8.5. This quake was a 8.9. Why not build them to sustain up to the low 9s?

Also, in Japan it was a real bad design flaw that lead to their nuclear woes. Emergency cooling relies on pumps, so if they lose their back up power and the pumps shut off they can't cool the core. Emergency cooling should rely on gravity instead.

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A real bad design flaw? Way to abuse the English language.

He could've also improved the sentence by removing "it was" and "that."

I didn't want to be too bitchy.

Whoops. I adjectived when I should have adverbed.

a nuclear plant in Japan just sounds like a terrible idea, but then again the country has no natural resources and would go broke importing all their energy.

yep, i was thinking, if something like Chernobyl happened there, Japan would become a ghost island

I'm actually developing the world's first risk-free energy source as we speak. Stay tuned.

If only we could somehow harness the force of masturbation. The world's energy problems would be over.

You'll never guess what CNN's topic of the day is today...

Should the United States hold off on building more nuclear plants in seismically active areas.

Here it starts people, told you.

There's plenty of inherent dangers involved in fusing apartment complex sluts toegther.

CNN is now making fun of Japan's nuclear power plant designs. Way to stay as classy as me.

topic du jour, friend. i'm sure it'll all fade away.

Well the white house is discussing nuclear incidents and meltdowns on TV now. I would imagine to not see much public support for nuclear energy here for years. I can especially see the tea party fuckers spouting off "BAN NUCULUR ENERGY11!1!" to try and win over more idiots with outdated morals and beliefs.

If only solar and wind could provide even close to what we need in energy. One day hopefully.