Remember that dog they rescued in the middle of the ocean after spending 3 weeks floating on a roof..? They brought him into shore:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLMYp6RL08A
(English subtitled)
I took a power and energy class in collage and one part was a debate on Nuke power. The pro nuke guy said that the China Syndrome was a figment of Jane Fonda’s bank account. The lives lost in the accident are fewer than would have been lost providing the same amount of energy with coal. Underground mining used to be the most dangerous occupation in this country.
And quite frankly, Chernobyl shouldn't count, because that facility was purposefully built in an unsafe manner.
I’m still for it. I think giving money to Muslims for arms and weaponry is an even worse idea. Learn the lesson; survey very carefully where you will put such a plant.
Chernobl was a poor design. Most contries had stopped using graphite moderated reactors back in the ‘50s as they are very unstable at low power levels.
TMI was an example of systems which worked and with modern computer systems probably never would have failed.
Japan failed due to lack of a reliable back-up power solution. Reactors require about 10MW just to run pumps and computers. The backup generators were destroyed by the wave and thus after the SCRAM, no power existed to run cooling pumps. Simply moving the generators 30ft above ground instead of 10ft below would have saved the plant.
How about:
Don’t built a nuclear reactor: (a) on a massive fault and (b) the tsunami area at the same time.