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By pirateboy (anonymous) | Posted March 29, 2011 at 00:14:17
Wow, you folks really know what you're on about (with a few exceptions)! The earthquake and tsunami are bad enough alone, but since some wank job thought nuclear power on a fault line was a good idea, they have this nuclear disaster crap to contend with. Nuclear power, no matter where you are, is a bad idea. Sure, it doesn't use fossil fuels, and sure, it has low carbon emmisions, and yes, it is efficient. But, nuclear is very high maintainance, highly complicated, is comparably unreliable, and when a reactor does fail, the consequences are irrepairable (you can't fix or re-build a reactor) and often catastrophic. Coal, which nuclear supporters say is more dangerous and emits more radiation, actually has a much better track record than nuclear. Sure, the ash might openly produce more background radiation, but how many radiation deaths have occured because of coal? And if nuclear really is safer, why don't exploding coal plants produce fallout resulting in mass evacuations and massive exclusion zones being indefinitely placed? Now i'm not advocating coal here, i'm just saying it's safer than nuclear.
I propose strategic renewable energy placement. Japan can do this successfully without the need of the 50-odd nuclear plants installed. Strategic placement like geothermal in volcanically active areas, tidal power in rough areas, wind in windy areas, japan has every opportunity to exploit their diverse climate to meet demands.
As with wind, google tesla wind turbine: some bloke built a wind turbine the size of a motorbike trailer capable of producing 10Kw! Nuclear may have met it's match.
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