A thorium reactor could be built on top of a mountain...
Plus, you could extract the thorium from coal, and use the electrical power generated by the thorium to make coal squeezins like the Germans did in WWII. (Petroleum product)
It's called the Fischer-Tropsch process. We actually had a plant here in the US after the war.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fischer%E2%80%93Tropsch_process
3 meltdowns?
Fukushima was stupid siting, and even then it was only the oldest reactor that actually had problems. On top of that, had they been able to get generator power in place (to replace the on-site generators that were sitting on the ground and got soaked), even that one reactor probably wouldn’t have lost cooling.
Chernobyl (I’m assuming this is #2 on your list) was a bad design, being run badly. Modern reactors don’t do this.
And I’m really guessing now, but is your third one Three Mile Island? If so, then you’re talking about technology that’s half a century out of date at a MINIMUM.
Even modern conventional fission reactors are far more safe than 3-mile, and as others posit above, there are newer designs that are even better. Here in India, there are two Thorium reactors online now, producing power, and they’re 1980s tech. A 21st-century design thorium reactor is going to be even more efficient and safe. Hitachi has 1MW “village-sized” reactors available, that are intended to all but eliminate the need for large-area power grids. A network of these could dramatically reduce power outages and all the challenges associated with maintaining hundreds of thousands of miles of high-tension lines.
Foolish Japanese government. Melt down still not contained and they want to come back for more. Insanity.
Seriously, if the “Global Warming” issue will cause us to switch over to nuclear power generation,
call me a “warmer”!!
Just goes to show you that “Global Warming” is just an excuse to do what the left wants to do anyway, at least with their other “solutions”.