Let's hope any new nuclear plants they build are at least magnitude 12 resistant. Game is Fukushima-fragility versus drowning cities.
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Magnitude 12? That's a dinosaur-killer asteroid scale earthquake; it might be slightly too expensive if it's that overdesigned.
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I agree this might be overdesigned. Very few nuclear accidents induce fatalities: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_n
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…which implies they are currently overdesigned, right?
(They are currently incredibly expensive due to safety concerns.)
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A bit, though I'm fine with status quo just for PR since people are so unreasonably afraid of them
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This study finds that coal power plants cause 384 times more deaths per unit energy than nuclear: pubs.giss.nasa.gov/abs/kh05000e.h
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Fukushima details now emerging show how close things got to a huge disaster
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Wasn't the near-miss only due to some *idiotic* mistakes made? (don't remember my source)


