Should Nuclear Power Survive Japan?

[^_^ 5,021]

Y'all are such a bunch of Luddites!t

[Usui Takumi 1,562]

I want a reactor in my basement. Seriously.

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I want a reactor in my basement. Seriously.

Don't put the reactor near your seeds

[Gary and Alla 3,694]

They say San Onofre can survive an attack by illegal aliens.

I say they look like ta-ta's

[Gary and Alla 3,694]

The good news is that we in VJ have done more for our allies in Japan, just in this thread alone, than our President has. Golf, anyone?

[JohnSmith2007 353]

There are safer units than Fukushima right? Such as PBRs?

The plants that are in trouble are 40 year old designs and were flawed from the beginning from what I understand. I even read that some GE engineers resigned because they didn't want to be associated with them. The plants built in the US have more redundant systems and better containment. From what I understand if the very same disaster happened to one of the "sister" plants here in America the outcome would be very different. It seems the plants in Japan were not up to snuff by our standards.