Lets learn to stop using 40 year old plants and build safer more efficient new ones.
Yes, that is the only good thing to come out of all this. There will be a lot learned.
I actually think that could be used as political leverage. Let’s make nuke safer by modernizing our facilities.
Right with you,
Inherently safe designs have been on the table since 1980 that are meltdown proof even with a loss of cooling, electrical, and complete loss of physical access.
The fact that we refuse to use these designs is a travesty.
The Japanese plants held up well, surviving one of the biggest earthquakes in recorded history.
It was the tsunami that caused the current problems.
Moral: do NOT build nuclear plants on the seashore. If these plants had been on high ground, they would be producing electricity today.