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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago (9 children)

There was still 164,000 people who needed to evacuate 230 square miles. The land is contaminated and cleanup is proving difficult. Japan will be dealing with the environmental impact for a century I'd wager.

[–] LandedGentry 6 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Put them in more appropriate places (not like everything has to be nuclear) and don’t act like the USSR.

Nuclear is a very valuable component of a mixed energy structure. There are absolutely use cases for it and we should not avoid it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

They need cooling water, so "on the coast" is a reasonable location. Or do you mean "not in Japan"? A country without many great options for clean energy generation. Frankly Japan is one of the places nuclear makes sense to me. There's not many options.

It doesn't make sense to me in the US where there's a sunshine belt across the country 5 timezones long, large windswept plains and shallow coastlines. The US is rich in options and nuclear falls down the list.

[–] LandedGentry 1 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

You know, the world is larger than Japan and the US

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